A Thai Navy Seal, who took part in the dramatic rescue of the Wild Boar footballers from a flooded cave in northern Thailand last year, succumbed to a lung infection he contracted during the mission, a senior Navy official said on Friday (December 27).

THE “WILD BOARS” youth football team, whose plight captivated the world a year ago when they were trapped for nearly three weeks in a flooded cave, paid their respects on Monday to a diver who died trying to save them.