A boy in Morocco is stuck at a depth of 32 meters for days. After the rescue operation, the worst fears are now sad certainty.
Update from Sunday, February 6th, 2022, 6.25 a.m .: Despite great efforts, the help for five-year-old Rayan in Morocco did not come in time. The rescue team rescued the boy from the 32 meter deep well on Saturday evening, reported the Moroccan state news agency MAP. The boy was declared dead a short time later. King Mohammed VI I expressed my condolences to the parents in a telephone call, according to a statement from the royal family.
Television footage showed rescuers carrying the boy out of a rescue tunnel and into a waiting ambulance. The boy fell into an unsecured well near his home in a village about 150 kilometers north of the city of Fes on Tuesday afternoon (see initial report). Rayan’s family eventually heard his whimpering and lowered a phone down to him on a rope. Despite the slow progress of the rescue operation, many hoped for a miracle until the end.
Morocco: After salvaging from a depth of 32 meters – boy (5) is dead
+++ 10:23 p.m .: After falling into a deep well in Morocco, the royal family confirmed the death of five-year-old Rayan. King Mohammed VI I expressed my condolences to the parents in a telephone call, according to a statement from the royal family. The boy fell into the 32 meter deep shaft near his home on Tuesday afternoon.
+++ 10:04 p.m .: The five-year-old boy Rayan has been rescued from the well, as now the New York Times and CNN unanimously report. This marks the end of a day-long rescue operation. The boy was handed over to a medical team. However, it is not yet known what condition he is in. “It’s difficult to say anything about his condition… but we have high, high hopes,” said Abdelhadi Tamarani, who is part of the rescue team, on Saturday evening (05.02.2022).
The five-year-old fell into a narrow, dry well near his parents’ house in a remote village in northern Morocco on Tuesday (February 1, 2022). The accident happened “in a moment of inattention,” Rayan’s father told local media. He just wanted to repair the well.
Update from Saturday, February 5th, 2022, 6:30 p.m.: Little Rayan was apparently found by a rescue team, as the news site le360fr tweeted. A team of civil defense doctors with a ventilator is now taking over to get the boy on a stretcher out of the well via the horizontal connecting tunnel.
Dramatic rescue operation: Child trapped in a 32 meter deep well for days
First report from Friday, February 4th, 2022, 12:00 p.m.: Bab Berred – It is a fight 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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