NThe royal family has confirmed the death of five-year-old Rayan after his fall into a deep well in Morocco. King Mohammed VI I expressed my condolences to the parents in a telephone call, it said in a statement from the royal family on Saturday evening.
Little Rayan accidentally fell into the narrow, dry well near his parents’ home in a remote village in the north of the country on Tuesday. The accident happened “in a moment of inattention,” Rayan’s father told local media; he just wanted to repair the well.
Since the well has a diameter of no more than 45 centimeters, the rescue workers could not go directly down into the well. Instead, they dug a 28 meter deep hole by Friday and then began work on a connecting tunnel to the well. Meanwhile, they brought water and oxygen to the bottom of the well via hoses.
The teams continued drilling work throughout Saturday night and in the freezing cold. Because of the complicated terrain and the risk of landslides, they made slow progress.
The incident, which also causes sympathy worldwide, 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. After 13 days, however, he could only be rescued lifeless.
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