BANGKOK — One of many 12 boys rescued from a flooded collapse Thailand in 2018 after being trapped for greater than two weeks has died in England, the place he was attending a sports activities academy, the muse sponsoring his research mentioned Wednesday.

Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep, 17, was discovered unconscious Sunday in his room on the Brooke Home Faculty Soccer Academy in Leicestershire and was taken to a hospital the place he died Tuesday, Thailand’s Zico Basis mentioned. The varsity additionally confirmed his dying.

“This occasion has left our school group deeply saddened and shaken,” faculty principal Ian Smith mentioned in an announcement. “We unite in grief with all of Dom’s household, pals, former teammates and people concerned in all components of his life, in addition to everybody affected in any method by this loss in Thailand and all through the school’s international household.”

Former Thai nationwide crew captain and coach Kiatisuk Senamuang, who heads the Zico Basis, mentioned in a web based information convention that he didn’t know the reason for dying and that Dom had apparently been in good well being.

Dom was the captain of the Wild Boars, a youth soccer crew within the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai. Twelve members of the crew, ages 11 to 16, and their coach had been exploring the Tham Luang cave complicated in June 2018 after they had been trapped by quickly rising floodwaters. An enormous search and rescue operation involving worldwide divers was launched.

The boys spent 9 nights misplaced within the cave, residing on little or no meals and water, earlier than a diver noticed them deep within the twisting cave complicated huddled on a patch of filth above the rising water line. The second was captured on video and shortly broadcast to the world.

It was one other eight days earlier than all had been safely rescued. A crew of skilled divers guided every of the boys out of the cave on particular stretchers after anesthetizing them to maintain them calm sufficient to move. The operation required inserting oxygen canisters alongside the trail the place the divers maneuvered by darkish, tight and twisting passageways stuffed with muddy water and robust currents.

Dom’s mom, who joined the web information convention, mentioned she hoped a Buddhist monk in England might conduct rites for Dom so his spirit wouldn’t be trapped the place he died in response to Buddhist beliefs.

The story of the Wild Boars, which was lined intensely by worldwide media, has been retold in a number of motion pictures, together with Ron Howard’s 2022 characteristic movie “13 Lives” and the 2021 documentary “The Rescue.”