CNN: The families of 12 missing boys and their soccer coach are nervously waiting for news of their children, as rescuers continue to search a partially flooded cave complex in northern Thailand where the group are thought to have been trapped since Saturday.
Most of the boys' parents are waiting in a makeshift camp near the Tham Luang Nang Non caves, and have not left the area since Saturday, when they learned that their children were missing.
The group, all belonging to the same soccer team from the nearby city of Chiang Rai, have been missing since 1 p.m. local time Saturday, when a park officer spotted something amiss -- bicycles parked idly by the entrance to the cave, despite it being off-limits.
They are believed to have crawled into the large series of caves through a narrow, 15-meter long channel.
The families can only sit and wait as rescuers battle heavy rains to search the flooded system of caves where the group are thought to be trapped.
Emergency services are attempting to pump water out of the cave complex, after heavy rains flooded the caves and the passages that link them.
The rains have caused the operation to be a struggle, Kamolchai Kotcha, an official with Thailand's national parks authority, told CNN.
"We have drawing out water from the cave, and we're (currently) looking for more water pumps" and long cables with which to power the pumps, he said.
The team of Thai Royal Navy SEAL pers, who reentered the cave complex early Tuesday morning, have yet to find any trace of the children or their coach, Kotcha told CNN by phone.
"We have drawing out water from the cave, and we're (currently) looking for more water pumps" and long cables with which to power the pumps, he said.
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