All 12 members of a Thai youth football team and their coach have been brought safely out of the cave in northern Thailand
The final five members rescued join eight team members taken to hospital on Sunday and Monday and said to be doing well
Each person was pulled through the cave by expert divers
The last Navy Seals - three divers and a doctor - are out of the cave, the rescue chief says
The 12 boys and their coach were trapped by floods more than two weeks ago
One former Navy diver, Petty Officer Saman Gunan, died last week carrying oxygen in the cave ahead of the rescue
Multiple sources are now saying six people have been rescued so far, as reported by local media, along with the AFP and Reuters news agencies.
The BBC has been unable to independently verify the number.
People online are gripped, with social media users full of praise for the rescuers.
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Dramatic photos of the rescue have emerged of military helicopters and ambulances thought to be carrying the boys to hospital, as rescuers work into the night
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Image source, EPAThis from the BBC's Jonathan Head:
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Reuters news agency are reporting that six of the 12 boys trapped in the cave have now been brought out, quoting a senior member of the rescue medical team.
However, the Thai Navy Seals have only just tweeted that three of the boys are out:
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Bangkok-based journalist Florian Witulski has been sharing some details about the rescue on social media.
According to Witulski, an Australian doctor decided to bring out the weakest boys first.
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He also revealed a possible reason for the decreased rescue time:
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We were originally expecting the first boys to emerge at about 14:00 GMT. Instead, the first two boys were brought out at 12:00 GMT.
Lieutenant-General Kongcheep Tantrawanit has said another four of the boys are expected to walk out "shortly".
They are currently at the divers' "base camp", inside the cave system, he said.
"Four boys have reached chamber three and will walk out of the cave shortly," he said, according to news agency AFP.
The nearest hospital is about an hour's drive from the area, the BBC's Dan Johnson reports.
The boys' families are waiting there, our correspondent says.
He adds that doctors assessed the boys inside the cave on Saturday, deciding on a priority evacuation list - with the weakest being brought out first.
Our reporter Helier Cheung - who is on the scene - says a fourth ambulance has arrived:
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Local journalists and media outlets have been tweeting pictures of helicopters leaving the area:
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It is unclear whether they are transporting anyone, or where exactly they are heading.
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Ambulance with sirens sounding has just left the area, our correspondent says.
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More from the local Thai official quoted by Reuters in the previous post.
Tossathep Boonthong, chief of Chiang Rai's health department and part of the rescue team, says: "Two kids are out. They are currently at the field hospital near the cave.
"We are giving them a physical examination. They have not been moved to Chiang Rai hospital yet."
Reuters news agency is now quoting a local official as saying that the first two boys have been brought out of the cave.
Thai media earlier reported the same information - but there is still no official confirmation.
Our correspondent's take on unconfirmed reports in Thai media that two boys have been brought out of the cave. Press conference due shortly.
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Lots of Thais have been sharing uplifting cartoons of the efforts on Twitter.
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The first two boys have been evacuated from the cave, some Thai media are reporting.
There is no official confirmation of this.
Narongsak Osottanakorn said that because of the complexity of the cave and difficulty of the operation, it was unknown how long it would take before the team could bring out the first group of boys.
The divers would work with medics in the cave to assess the boys' health before determining who would come out first. It is not known how many of them would be able to come out in the first operation.
The official added that it was unclear how long that assessment might take.
The head of the Joint Command Centre, Narongsak Osottanakorn, has just released details about the progress of the rescue operation.
He said the operation began at 10 local time (03:00 GMT), when 13 international divers entered the cave.
He said 10 of them headed for Chamber 9 (where the boys are) and Chamber 6 (near the junction) as planned. Another three cave divers joined the operation at 14:00 local time.
There are a number of additional rescue personnel - including divers from Thailand, the US, Australia, China and Europe - stationed from Chamber 3 to the entrance.
This includes a rope system to assist over difficult terrain in Chambers 2 and 3.
The BBC's Helier Cheung is reporting that there has been in activity in the area - but it is not clear what is actually happening.
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