Thai commandos to pull out remaining boys from cave on Tuesday

As the Thai Navy SEAL pulled out 4 boys out of the cave on the sixteenth day, officials said they will try to pull everyone out on Tuesday with the monsoon imminent.

In a mammoth effort, the Thai commandos rescued four boys from theTham Luangcave on Monday afternoon. Four boys were taken out on Sunday in a daring rescue attempt.

"As of now, eight people have left the cave," a rescue official told Reuters.

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The junior soccer team "Wild Boars" including the 25-year-old coach have been trapped in the cave since June 23rd while they were trying to escape the rains.

The boys were found by British divers several kilometres inside the cave.

Thirteen foreign divers and five members of Thailand's elite navy SEAL unit make up the main team guiding the boys to safety through narrow, submerged passageways that claimed the life of a former Thai navy diver on Friday.

Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda told reporters the four boys rescued on Sunday were in good health in hospital, the Thai prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha had visited the site earlier.

Somboon Sompiangjai the father of one of the trapped boys, said parents were told by rescuers ahead of Sunday's operation the "strongest children" would be brought out first.