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The story of the daring Thai cave rescue

It was an operation that tested rescuers' grit and the world's nerves; its plot and denouement were the stuff of an edge-of-your-seat Hollywood flick. But in the end, 12 Thai schoolboys who spent a fortnight trapped in a cave in Chiang Rai province were guided out to safety -- like "eggs protected in stone", as one Navy SEAL commander put it. Their football coach was rescued too.

India Today TV deputy editor Mausami Singh was on the ground in Thailand's Chiang Rai province, where the rescue happened. Watch her special report on the daring operation.

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