In 2006, it took 50 hours for 5-year-old Prince to be rescued from deep inside a borewell an incident that captured the whole nation. And, most recently, in 2018, it was the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand that became a global event
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. With the entire nation hooked on to their TV screens, watching with bated breath the ongoing rescue mission to evacuate 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi since November 12, PTI looks at other such heroic rescue missions of the past that got the whole world talking. India News | 1989 'Operation Raiganj' to 2018 Thai Cave Rescue: Look at Heroic Rescue Missions That Riveted World.
Arguably the most talked about rescue mission in recent years, the story of a Thai youth soccer team and their coach trapped in the Tham Luang Cave, prompting a global rescue effort, gripped the world.
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