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Twelve boys and their soccer coach, lost for 10 days in a cave in Thailand, have been found alive, officials announced Monday.

"Thai Navy SEALs have found all 13 with signs of life," Narongsak Osottanakorn, the governor of the Chiang Rai province, told reporters.

PHOTO: Family members celebrate while camping out near Than Luang cave following news all members of children's football team and their coach were alive in the cave at Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 2, 2018. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images) More

Rescuers are now working to extract the team from the cave.

The Thai Navy SEALs posted a video on Facebook showing the group when they were first found. The boys appeared to be in good health and were talking, asking what day it was and being told by rescuers that more help was on the way.

"I am very happy," one of the boys said in English. "Thank you so much."

A British diver on the SEAL team told the group, "You have been here 10 days. You are very strong."

One of the boys asked him, "What time do we go outside?"

The diver responded, "No, not today, not today. There's two of us. You have to dive. We're coming. It's OK. Many people are coming. Many, many people. We're the first. Many people come."

The divers provided the group with lights and told them food and medical help were on the way.

"Where are you from?" one of the rescued boys asked.

The diver answered, "England, the UK."

"God bless you," another member of the rescued party was heard saying.

When a Thai military official announced the rescue at a base camp near the mouth of the cave, loud cheers went up from the searchers, who had been praying and working feverishly for such an outcome.

Aisha Wiboonrungrueng's 11-year-old son, Chanin Wiboonrungrueng, was among rescued.

"He would love to eat a fried omelet," the ecstatic mother told reporters.

Ben Reymenants, a Belgian diver who is part of an international contingent that had been searching for the soccer team, said he was briefed by an operation commander on the rescue. He said the children and their coach were weak when they were found and that a medic was now with them in the cave, providing medical assistance.

Reymenants told ABC News the race is on to safely remove the group from the cave over the next 12 hours before the next rainstorm hits.

The miraculous rescue came during a lull in the torrential rains that had hampered the agonizing search. The respite from the rain also gave rescuers confidence to push forward in an area of the subterranean labyrinth they had hoped the boys and their coach were waiting to be saved.

PHOTO: General Bancha Duriyaphan speaks to the press after the 12 boys and their soccer coach have been found alive in the cave where they've been missing for over a week after monsoon rains blocked the main entrance, July 02, 2018, in Thailand. (Linh Pham/Getty Images) More

Gov. Osottanakorn said the rescuers reached the area known as Pattaya Beach where they thought they would find the lost group. When they arrived the area was flooded. He said the rescuers forged ahead about another 1,000 feet, where they discovered the boys and their coach.

"It is another high ground," Osottanakorn said of where the group was located. "We found that our younger brothers are safe."

Reymenants said the team was found in the dark and wet underground web of tunnels in the jungle of northern Thailand about a day after rescuers spotted fresh writing on a wall of one of the passageways.

"I'm feeling so happy. This is like out of a movie, truthfully," U.S. Air Force Capt. Jessica Tait, a spokeswoman for the 353rd Special Operations Group, told ABC News at the base camp near the entrance to the cave.

"I felt elation. I felt so excited," she said of getting the news that the team had been located.

The 12 boys, ranging in age from 11 to 16, and their coach went missing after entering the Tham Luang Nang Non cave for an excursion on June 23.

PHOTO: Thai rescue teams walk inside cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, July 2, 2018. (Tham Luang Rescue Operation Center via AP) More

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