The official debriefing mentions only 4 boys have emerged and one has been flown by helicopter to hospital.
All in the diiving rescue team are safe
Diving operations has ceased for today
The boys travelled 1km underwater
Rescue operators have announced a 10 hour break before resuming.
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The rescue has been concluded for the night and will resume in 10-20 hours because “we’ve used all the oxygen,” according to the operation chief.
“Its actually just falling quiet here,” says Dan Johnston on the BBC News Channel. “There’s been a lot of activity in the past few minutes. It looks like people are leaving this site for the night.
“One thing to bear in mind is the tiredness levels of the cave diving exerts who are leading this operation. They have been working busily all day and it looks like some of them are actually leaving the dive site now.
“It looks like they’ve taken the decision that they have done as much as they can for today.”
The operation is set to resume at 8am local time with officials and volunteers buoyed by the fact that their method of rescuing the boys by diving has been successful insofar.
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