BMA sends its staff and pumps to assist in search at Chiang Rai’s cave

BANGKOK, June 27 (TNA) -- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has sent its drainage officials, hoses and pumps to support the ongoing mission to search for 12 boys and their football coach missing in the flooded Tham Luang Khun Nam Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai province since Saturday. Bangkok governor Aswin Khwanmuang said the City Hall sent five high-power pumps, hoses with a combined length of two kilometers, drainage staff, technicians and other relevant equipment aboard an air force plane to the northern province of Chiang Rai to assist in the search mission. Besides, the BMA received a request for 20 large electric pumps and 40 fire hoses of 20-meter length each. The Bangkok governor said the BMA already supplied the items. The BMA was ready to deploy additional equipment around the clock to support the search mission in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district, Pol Gen Aswin said. (TNA)