Thai cave boys’ coach trapped again six years later by typhoon floods

Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of home

The coach of the young Thai footballers who captured the world's attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself in another watery predicament - stuck on his roof by flash floods.

Ekkapol Chantawong said he was drawing on his 2018 experience with the Wild Boars team to get through the situation at his home in the northern Thai district of Mae Sai.