A five-year-old boy falls into a 32 meter deep well and has been stuck in the narrow hole for days. Rescue work in Morocco is in full swing.
Bab Berred – It’s a race against time. A little boy has been stuck in a 32 meter deep well since Tuesday (February 1st, 2022). The rescue workers in Morocco are doing everything they can to free the five-year-old child as quickly as possible.
Little Rayan accidentally fell into the narrow, dry well near the family home in a village near the Moroccan town of Bab Berred in Chefchaouen province on Tuesday. The accident happened “in a moment of inattention”, Rayan’s father described to local media. He just wanted to repair the well.
Child falls into well and is trapped for days – difficult rescue work in Morocco
The rescue work was intensified around the well on Thursday evening, as reported by the AFP news agency. They could last until morning. The rescue teams, who have been deployed for more than two days, could not descend directly into the well because “its diameter is no more than 45 centimeters,” rescue operation leader Abdelhabi Temrani told state TV channel Al Oula. According to the MAP news agency, the rescue workers were able to “bring water and oxygen to Rayan via hoses”.
The emergency services were able to dig a “more than 27 meters” deep shaft. It is hoped to “get to 32 meters in the next few hours before a 3 meter horizontal connection is dug between the hole and the well to recover the child.” A team of doctors was dispatched to “perform initial examinations and resuscitation measures on the child as soon as it is rescued”. A helicopter is ready to fly the child to a nearby hospital.
Child falls into a well: rescue workers in Morocco see only one way to save it
The rescuers also considered “increasing the diameter of the well, but that was not possible due to the nature of the earth, which could lead to a landslide,” said government spokesman Mustapha Baitas. So the only solution was to dig around the well.
The incident, which aroused great interest across North Africa, is reminiscent of the fate of two-year-old Julen in Spain in 2019. * The boy fell 100 meters deep into a borehole with a diameter of only 25 centimeters. The boy’s body was discovered 13 days later. (slo/AFP) *fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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