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_Published 2018-07-11. The last member of the rescue team to leave the Thai cave, Australian doctor Richard Harris, has lost his father._


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## Transcript

The sad news early this morning that Harry's father passed away here in [ UNKNOWN ]. So Harry was aware of that. Happened, and as most of you know that was after they had all come out of the cave successfully. So it's been a really tough time. The team here at Medstar and the rescue retrieval aviation services base, We are all behind Harry, thinking of him. We have spoken to Harry. Harry is still over in Thailand. We are not sure exactly when he is going to be back. They need to do some wrap up after the mission. However, he knows that he needs to be back here with his family and that we need to respect his privacy and privacy of the family.

Who really, Harry's given his all. His family have given the support, we've given the support as well as an organization but we now need to hurry to be able to look after and Harry's family [ UNKNOWN ] look after and just give him the time and space to get over this really tough event, especially after Harry's put so much into the rescue effort over in Thailand. Well as I said, completely unexpected, and Harry put the mission first. Look after the rest of the team, and look after the people that he was over there to do. And now he's having to come to deal with what actually happened overnight.

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