Duangpetch, Thailand's Youth Who Have Fired From The 2018 Flood Cave Reportedly Died

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JAKARTA - Duangpetch Promthep, one of the boys who was rescued from a flood cave in Thailand in 2018, reportedly died in England.

According to Channel News Asia citing the BBC news, the 17-year-old was reported to have suffered a head injury, but the cause of his death was not clear.

Her mother has reportedly notified Wat Doi Wao's temple in her hometown of her death.

Duangpetch Promthep is known to be studying as a novice Buddhist monk in honor of Samarn Kunan, a volunteer diver and former Thai naval SEAL who lost their lives during a mission to save them.

Supatpong Mehigo, a Buddhist monk and former Duangpetch teacher, admitted that he was told by Duangpetch's grandmother that the teenager died in an accident.

"On your next page, may you be your favorite again," he wrote.

Thailand's non-profit organization Zico Foundation, which helped Duangpetch get a scholarship to study in the UK, expressed its condolences in a statement on Facebook on Wednesday.

The former captain and coach of Thailand's national team, Kiatisuk Semenauang, whose foundation helped Duangpetch get scholarships at the Football Academyranch House College in Leicestershire, described him as a polite and kind man who dreams of playing for his country.

"I want to see his dream come true... but I think about it well now Dom," he wrote on Instagram.