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The 12 members of the Wild Boars football team and their coach are expected to leave hospital this week after they were trapped underground in a flooded cave for a marathon two weeks. Photos released by the health ministry show the young football team members crowded around a sketch of Kunan writing messages on it and bowing their heads in commemoration at his remarkable actions. Doctors only wanted to share with them the tragic news of Kunan’s death after they were deemed strong enough and many of them cried after hearing the tragic news.

The football team pose with a photo of the diver who saved them

Thailand cave rescue: First pictures of boys in hospital Thu, July 12, 2018 All 12 boys of a child soccer team and their assistant coach have been rescued and being treated at a hospital Play slideshow EPA 1 of 10 Thai youth soccer team as are being treated at the hospital

All cried and expressed their condolences by writing messages on a drawing of Lieutenant Commander Saman and observed one minute of silence for him. Permanent secretary at the Health Ministry

Former Thai Navy Seal Kunan has been honoured with a state funeral where hundreds of mourners were able to pay tribute to the 37-year-old in his home town of Chatuphak Piman yesterday. The Thai Health Ministry have said that the 12 boys and their coach have been morning the former Navy Seal who died during the mission. The volunteer diver died on July 6 when he was placing oxygen tanks in the passageways of the cave.

The presence of hundreds of rescue workers inside the cave had been depleting the air supply the boys have been relying on so divers released air to try and restore the levels in the cave to a healthy amount. Permanent secretary at the Health Ministry, Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk, said: “All cried and expressed their condolences by writing messages on a drawing of Lieutenant Commander Saman and observed one minute of silence for him.

Suman Kunan died as part of the rescue mission for the Thai cave footballers

“They also thanked him and promised to be good boys.” Tributes have been expressed across the globe for Saman, a triathlete and diver who retired from the military in 2006 and worked at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport before volunteering to help with the rescue in northern Thailand. Kunan was awarded the Knight Grand Cross First Class of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant medal and posthumously promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

The footballers were deeply emotional when they found out about Kunan