In June 2018, the story of Duangpetch Promthep and 11 other young Thai footballers gripped the world.

For more than two weeks, the team's fate hung in the balance, as a diving team assembled from around the world sought to rescue the Wild Boars team from the Tham Luang cave.

As the world watched, the boys and their coach were removed from the cave one by one while sedated with the drug ketamine.

But for the boys - who were aged between 11 and 16 - their escape marked the beginning of a new challenge: dealing with the fascination of the world's media.

 

Having followed their ordeal for almost three weeks, global news organisations sought every detail of the team's experience.

In 2019, the players agreed to a six-part Netflix documentary series after the Thai government struck a deal which reportedly saw each child's family paid $94,000 (£72,000). The show came out last year.

 

Separately, Thirteen Lives - a Ron Howard film, starring Colin Farrell - was also released in 2022.

 

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Didn't one of the boys die today?