Despite the efforts of the rescue team to get him out, the little boy died of a respiratory problem during his transfer to the hospital.
Barely two weeks after the painful outcome of the rescue of little Rayan, who had been trapped for five days in a 32-meter-deep well in Morocco, Afghanistan suffers the same harrowing story with Haidar, a boy between five and seven years old who fell on Tuesday to a hole about 25 meters underground. The rescue teams have turned during these days to locate the minor but, although they were able to get him out first thing in the morning, he died of a respiratory problem. His death was certified during his transfer to a hospital in Zabul province.
The rescue team managed to pierce a rock yesterday afternoon that blocked the way to the little one. As in Morocco, local residents reached out to the family and collected supplies for Haidar (such as water, biscuits and a cell phone so she could talk to her father, who lay dying on the surface hoping to hug her again. her little one), which was lowered to her via a cable. A video shared on social networks shows part of a conversation between the two. “Son, please, don’t cry,” the father told the boy, on the verge of tears, who asked him to come down and look for him.
In a race against time, workers and machines tried to get as close as possible to the cavity where Haidar was. Despite the addition of different mining machinery from neighboring Kandahar province on Thursday, the reinforcements arrived late. According to the direction of Culture and Information of the province of Zabul, Sharafat Wayar, by then it was already feared that the child was in a “critical” state because he was no longer heard. “He had stopped crying.”
“Day of Mourning and Sadness”
When they arrived, the little boy was still alive, but his condition was “not good” and he had to receive medical attention “on the spot,” said Ahmadullah Wasiq, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban government. “The medical team gave him oxygen. But when he tried to take him to the helicopter, he died, “explained Zabiulá Jawhar, a spokesman for the Zabul police. The death has also been confirmed by the high political official Anas Haqqani. «I belong to God, and to God I return. Sadly, the Haider boy has been taken from us forever. Our country is once again the host of the tragedy. May God grant patience to the Afghan people, especially Haidar’s family, and bring springs of joy,” he posted on his Twitter account. “It is a new day of mourning and sadness for our country.”
A similar misfortune struck Morocco just two weeks ago with little Rayan. After being trapped for five days in a well 32 meters deep into which he fell last Tuesday, a tragedy that put the country on edge and that united the population with prayers of hope, the rescue team managed to get the five-year-old boy out but lifeless. The outcome of the operation was anxiously awaited both in the Maghreb kingdom and in the rest of the world, which filled social networks with messages of solidarity. After this painful outcome, the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior ordered the demolition of abandoned wells near population centers so that accidents like this would not happen again.
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