Crews Race to Drain Thai Cave Where Youth Soccer Team Is Trapped

Forecast calls for heavy rain, raising risk that underground complex in northern Thailand could be flooded

THAM LUANG CAVE, Thailand—International rescuers working to extract a youth soccer team from a flooded cave system in northern Thailand raced Wednesday to drain a route to freedom before an incoming storm again raises water levels in the underground labyrinth.

The worsening weather forecast is for heavy rain within days as the tropical wet season becomes more entrenched.

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