Daily Mail: Thailand parties through the night! Country erupts in celebrations after miraculous rescue mission to free trapped football team succeeds
* Celebrations in the streets and on social media after final four boys and their football coach are rescued
* The 12 Wild Boar FC players had been trapped in cave in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand more than two weeks
* First four players were rescued on Sunday, the second batch on Monday, and on Tuesday the rest were freed
* British divers found boys and coach, hungry and huddled in darkness on a muddy bank, on Monday last week
* Two boys have suspected lung infections but the first four boys rescued are all now walking around in hospital
* The boys' parents have not been able to hug them yet because of the risk of infection but are expected to be reunited with their sons in the coming days
Thailand has erupted in celebration following the news that all 12 youth football players and their coach trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks have been rescued - in an astonishing against-the-odds mission that captivated the world.
Authorities had been mulling ideas such as drilling holes into the mountain or waiting months until monsoon rains ended and they could walk out, with the rescue chief at one point dubbing the efforts to save them 'Mission Impossible'.
In the end, a team of specialist divers, lead by British experts and Thai Navy SEALs, entered the cave and 'effectively pulled' the boys through several miles of waterfilled tunnels one by one - despite many of them not even knowing how to swim.
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