An abbot performed rites for Dom, the captain of a junior football team that survived the 2018 ordeal, with his photos and shoes. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CHIANG RAI - The funeral for Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from the flooded Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai, Thailand in 2018, was held on Thursday night without his body.after collapsing in his dormitory room on Sunday. The former captain of a junior football team was studying at Brooke House College, a football academy about 150km north of London, on a scholarship since last September.
“I believe that Duangphet’s soul has returned to his hometown to meet his parents and friends who gathered to make merit for him,” he said. The Royal Thai Embassy in London said Dom was taken to a hospital’s intensive care unit after losing consciousness in his dormitory room on Sunday. The were exploring the cave after a training session, but found themselves trapped inside after monsoon rain filled up the cave rapidly, blocking their way out.
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