The first four boys rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand are in good health and demanding fried rice in hospital today, the head of the rescue team says, as divers resumes operations to bring out the remaining members of the group.

Rescuers in Thailand are no closer to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found pale and weak but otherwise in good health, after nine days lost underground.