Thailand mourns governor who supervised cave rescue
Late June, Thais across the Kingdom mourned the passing of a national hero – the former governor who supervised the daring and dangerous rescue of 13 young footballers from a flooded cave in northern Thailand almost exactly five years ago.
Narongsak Osotthanakorn, the former Governor of Chiang Rai, the northernmost province in the Kingdom where the Tham Luang cave is located, passed away from cancer at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok last Wednesday at the age of 58.
Narongsak was known for a “scrupulous and no-nonsense approach” to his work and stood against suspected corruption in various projects. He applied that approach in organizing the response when in 2018 the 12 students of the Wild…
