Efforts to rescue the trapped Thai soccer team are about to get hit with 8 days of monsoon rain that will make it even harder to get them out

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• Rescuers in Thailand are struggling to save a soccer team trapped in a partially flooded cave complex.
• People have been pumping water out of the Tham Luang cave in an effort to clear the passageways.
• Weather forecasts for the region show five days of heavy rain on the way, which could undo all the work so far.

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Rescuers fighting to save the soccer team trapped in a Thai cave network are about to face an even harder task, as monsoon season approaches the region in earnest with at least a week of daily rainstorms.

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