Duangpetch Promthep, one of 12 boys rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018, died in the UK on Tuesday.
According to the BBC news, the 17-year-old boy was found unconscious in his dorm room on Sunday and taken to hospital, where he died on Tuesday. The cause of death is not yet known, the young man had head injuries.
News of his death was announced after his mother notified Wat Doi Wao Temple. “May Dom rest in peace,” reads a Temple publication.
Duangpetch Promthep, also known as Dom, was the captain of the Thai football team who was detained for two weeks in Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province.
In August last year, Dom was awarded a scholarship to Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire. “Today my dream came true,” he wrote on social networks at the time.
On June 23, 2018, the Thai football team went to Tham Luang cave by bicycle after training. After a storm, the water level rose, trapping the team in the cave.
The twelve boys, aged between 11 and 16, spent nine days in the dark without food until they were rescued by a team of more than 100 elements.
Dom turned 13 when he was trapped in the cave.
Source: DN
