‘Playing football in heaven’: tributes pour in after boy rescued in Thai cave dies in UK

Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from deep inside a Thai cave in 2018, died in the UK on Tuesday. Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images

Tributes have been paid to Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave in 2018, who died in the UK on Tuesday.

Kiatisuk Senamuang, the founder of the Zico Foundation and a mentor to Duangpetch, known also as Dom, wrote in a message: “Have fun playing football in heaven, be what Dom wanted to be, just go for it, go to watch every match you want to.”