re: Update: ALL RESCUED - Doctors Father Dies

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Huge pumps -- which had been working day and night to keep the water levels in the cave down -- had failed. The water began rising, as quickly as one centimetre per minute. In a flurry of spotlights, rescue workers began scrambling up the cave, slipping and sliding over rocks and make-shift stairs cut into the mud. They all managed to make it out, but had the rescue of the boys been delayed, or had commanders chosen to extend it into a fourth day, the pump failure could have caused a catastrophe.

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