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13 Thai soccer team boys, including their coach who were reclaimed from a Thailand flooded cave, are recovering well from their ordeal and will be discharged from hospital following week, according to health minister Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn.

The rescue has been safely ended evoking international relief and joyousness. The last of the 12-member "Wild Boars" soccer team and their trainer were brought out of the Tham Luang cave, in Northern Thailand on Tuesday night.

Since the day of their rescue, the boys and their coach have been in the hospital undergoing care.

On Saturday, the boys appeared fit thanking their rescuers in a video played at a news conference. "I am in good health now," said one of the boys, a 14-year-old nicknamed Note. "Thanks for saving me."

The boys mostly aging 11 to 16 old, and their 25-year-old coach after soccer practice on June 23 had planned to look into the cavern complex for about an hour. But a rainy season cloudburst flooded the tunnels consequently trapping them.

On July 2, the trappers were found by two British divers squatting on a mound in a flooded chamber several kilometers inside the complex.

Then the difficulty became how to get them back out through the tunnels, some entirely full of fast-flowing flood water.

The Thai Navy SEALs endeavor to rescue boys have come to end over the course of a three-day rescue, organized by Thai Navy SEALs and an international team of cave-diving experts.

Piyasakol told reporters the health of all 13 had improved. Some had pneumonia when they were brought out of the cave but were recovering, he said.

He added that all will be discharged from hospital in the northern town of Chiang Rai on Thursday.

The tale is already geared up for a retelling by Hollywood, with two production companies looking to put together movies about the boys and their rescue.

By Sowmya Sangam