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11 members of a Thai youth football team trapped in a flooded cave for 18 days have been rescued, leaving just one boy and their coach still stuck underground.

The 11th rescued child is reported by Thai media to be the youngest member of the team, 11-year-old Chanin Wiboonrungruang, whose nickname is Titan. 

8 members had already been rescued as at yesterday before the operation was halted and resumed today. Then mission to extract the remaining four and their coach began on Tuesday morning. Thankfully, three boys have been rescued today. They were "carried out on stretchers" and into an ambulance. 

The governor of the rescue mission said Tuesday's operation will be more difficult than the previous two days, due to the increased number of people who need to be evacuated, but he expects that "everybody will be out today." 

The first eight to be evacuated have all been given inoculations against rabies and tetanus, and are all being treated with antibiotics amid fears they may have been bitten by disease-carrying bats inside the huge underground network.

The boys are weak and ravenously hungry, Thailand's public health chief Dr Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk revealed, but have been laughing and joking with staff and officials. Among the first things the children told medical staff were "we miss home" and "we're happy", he added.