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The 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand left a hospital on Wednesday (July 18) to make their first public appearance at a nationally-broadcast news conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai. Vans painted in silver and pink drove the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach, out of the hospital where they have stayed since last week's international effort to extricate them from a flooded cave complex where they had been trapped. The boys wore T-shirts emblazoned with a red graphic of a wild boar with backpacks slung over their shoulders, as a gauntlet of media cameras crowded around them as they got into the vans.