One of the Thai teenagers rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018 died at a hospital in the UK, his school said on Wednesday.
Duangpetch Promthep, now 17, was the captain of the team that got trapped, the “wild boars”, in the Chiang Rai cave and was, at the time, 13 years old.
The causes of death are not yet known and, for now, the British police only confirm that they received a call on Sunday afternoon “about the state of health” from a student at Brooke House College football school.
The death of Promthep, who was still taken to hospital, where he ended up dying, “is not being viewed as suspicious.”
The institution to which the young man attended a year ago in Leicester, is “devastated by the confirmation of death” in a statement.
The Thai press reports that the young man suffered a head injury and the family fears that they will not be able to pay for the transfer of the body because “they do not have much money.”
The Thai NGO Zico Foundation, which had awarded Promthep a scholarship, expressed its condolences on Facebook, in a post in which the organization’s leader said the young man was found “unconscious in his room” by a teacher.
“He received a three-year scholarship from our foundation. He was our first intern and we know that he was happy there ”, reads the same publication.
Source: TSF
