Thailand: Only one child and the coach left to rescue (UPDATED)

EuroNews: An eleventh person has been brought out from a flooded cave system in Thailand, witnesses say.

A dozen boys from a youth football team were stranded there with their coach on June 23 amid heavy rain and rising waters.

Eight boys were brought out alive over the last couple of days.

A fresh operation to save the remaining five people was launched on Tuesday and a Reuters witness said saw three people being pulled out on stretchers.

Officials were not immediately available to comment on who had been brought out.

British divers found the 13, huddled on a muddy bank in a partly flooded chamber several kilometres inside the complex, on Monday last week.

Reuters: A tenth person was rescued from the flooded Thai Cave complex. This raises the hopes that all 13 will be out by the end of this day. A Reuters witness saw the two people being carried out the Tham Luang cave on stretchers.

The Telegraph:   Rescuers have launched a third mission in the flooded Thai cave as they attempt to save the remaining four boys and their football coach who have been trapped for 18 days.

As heavy rains threaten the perilous escape route and complicate an already dangerous operation, authorities aim to bring all five to the surface on Tuesday. One person was reportedly rescued at just after 10am BST (4pm local time) on Tuesday.

The hoped-for final chapter in an ordeal that has gripped the world comes after elite divers escorted eight young players of the Wild Boars football team out of the claustrophobic network of tunnels on Sunday and Monday.