The Moroccan boy trapped in well latest – Rayan the Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well dies hours before he was rescued by teams of helpers who had been trying to reach the boy for four days.
The five-year-old boy who had been trapped in a well for four days had been in communication with rescuers died hours before painstaking efforts to rescue him.
The bid to free the boy, named Rayan, had gripped northern Africa and Moroccans worldwide, with hundreds of people gathered at the well and thousands more following online.
Whilst his father was working on repairing the well, the boy plunged 32m (104ft) through the well’s narrow opening.
A royal statement from the King of Morocco confirmed his death soon after he was extracted from the well. The king had expressed his deepest condolences and sincere compassion, it added.
“Following the tragic accident which cost the life of the child Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI called the parents of the boy who died after falling down the well,” the statement from the royal palace said.
The complex rescue working around the clock
The rescue had been hampered by several factors for the rescue team who feared landslides and the collapsing of the well as well the structure of shafts created.
The mixture of rocky and sandy soils meant rescuers deemed opening the water well’s narrow shaft to be too dangerous. Instead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well.
So the rescue efforts first dug alongside the well and then started digging horizontally to reach the boy. Some worked round the clock, using powerful floodlights during the night.
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The operation had to be paused briefly several times to allow crews to check that the hillside was safe from collapsing and that no soil was entering the well.
Large pipes were also used to protect rescue teams by providing a secure passage to the shaft. Specialist structural engineers were on-site to monitor the possibility of a landslide.
Led by Morocco’s Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, began on Tuesday evening.
Footage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious and he was lowered food and oxygen over the past few days.
Rescuers finally brought the boy out of the well on Saturday evening.
Moments of jubilation turned to disbelief
Hundreds of people gathered to watch the rescue of the Moroccan boy trapped in the well, singing religious songs, praying and chanting “Allah u Akbar”. Some even camped at the site.
On social media, people using the hashtag #SaveRayan, which had been trending across the world, expressed their jubilation when notices of his rescue started surfacing.
No word had been given at the time about his condition. But this quickly turned to heartbreak and disbelief minutes later when the statement came announcing that Rayan had died.
Twitter users then began paying tribute to the rescue teams and expressing sadness using the same hashtag.
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