Update - Ninth Boy ⛑Rescued from 🇹🇭Thai Cave

Thai rescuers brought a ninth boy out from the Tham Luang cave on Tuesday afternoon, police and navy sources told AFP, after 18 days trapped underground.
"The ninth boy is out," the police source said, requesting anonymity, while a Thai navy source confirmed the boy "has been transferred from the cave entrance to the field hospital."

Rescuers resumed preparations earlier today for a third rescue operation deep into a cave complex in northern Thailand to free four remaining boys and their soccer coach in a race against time and monsoon weather. Four more of the boys were carried on stretchers out of the labyrinthine Tham Luang cave on the Myanmar border on Monday, bringing to eight the total number brought out so far after two rescue pushes in successive days.

The head of the operation, Narongsak Osottanakorn, said rescuers had learned from experience and were two hours faster in bringing the second batch of survivors out as scattered monsoon rains continued to risk flooding the tunnels with water.