Wild Boars captain’s cause of death ruled as suicide

One of the 13 footballers who survived a flooded Thai cave in 2018, and who died while studying abroad earlier this year, had his death ruled as suicide, according to a coroner.

In a BBC report, Professor Catherine Mason said Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep, the captain of the Wild Boars football team who were trapped inside the Nang Non Cave in Chiang Rai, said that police had found “no evidence of third-party involvement or suspicious circumstances.”

“Mr Phromthep was not known to mental health services, and it is not known why he took the actions that he did. It could not have been foreseen or prevented,” Prof. Mason said in the record of the inquest.

Dom, who was 17, was found unconscious in his dorm room in February at Brooke House College, an elite football academy in Leicestershire, England. The academy is best known to Thai football fans as the home…