Wild Boars team captain dies in UK-based accident

The captain of the young “Wild Boars” football team rescued from a flooded Tham Luang Cave in Chiang Rai in 2018 has passed away in the United Kingdom.

Duangphet “Dom’”

Phromthep, 17, was found unconscious in his dormitory in Leicestershire on Feb 12 and died in hospital two days later.

The cause of death was unclear, but unconfirmed reports in the British media said he sustained a head injury. He had signed up for the Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicester, England, last year.

Social media was inundated with messages of grief and sympathy after the news broke on Feb 15.

The Zico Foundation posted a message and a photo of Duangphet, who received a scholarship to the football academy from the foundation.

Phra Khru Prayut Jetiyanukarn, abbot of Wat Phra That Doi Wao in Chiang Rai, said

Duangphet’s mother phoned him around 6am on Feb 15 to say her son had died.

The abbot said initial reports were that Duangphet was injured in a fall. He was admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator but later died. The family is in touch with the Foreign Affairs Ministry and details will be announced in due course.

Duangphet was the captain of the Wild Boars football team whose rescue from the flooded cave captured the attention of the world in 2018. He won the scholarship to study at the football academy in Leicestershire in August last year.

Duangphet posted a mes-