This 5-year-old child fell on Tuesday in a well drying 32 meters deep. The whole kingdom follows the relief work that attempt to extract it.
Le Monde with AFP
It’s a race against watch that Moroccan rescuers deliver. In the night of Thursday 3 to Friday, February 4, the operations intensified to try to save a five-year-old boy, blocked in a deep well of a village in northern country since Tuesday afternoon. Bulldozers are on site, found the France-Press agency (AFP).
The drilling works “reached more than 27 meters, with the hope of arriving at 32 meters during the coming hours, before digging a horizontal gap of 3 meters between the hole and the well to recover the child “, the press agency reported Map.
Relief was able to carry “water and oxygen with tubes to Rayan,” the Moroccan press agency said. A medical team stands ready to “carry out the initial exams and child resuscitation interventions once rescued,” added the MAP. And a helicopter of the gendarmerie must evacuate the boy to a near hospital. Rescuers are supported by topographers also mobilized on site.
The small rayan fell accidentally Tuesday in a well drying 32 meters deep, narrow and difficult to access, dug near the family residence in a village located not far from the locality of Bab Berred, in the province of Chefchaouen (north of Morocco).
“In a moment of inattention, the little one fell into the well that I repaired. I could not close the night’s eye,” Rayan’s father testified to the LE360 information site. . “Rayan is very loved here in the village, not only at home, I miss, it’s been three nights,” said Laaziza Septuagenarian grandmother in AFP.
“Our hearts are with the family and one begs God for him to find his loved ones as soon as possible,” wished the spokesman of the government, Mustapha Baitas, at the end of the Weekly Government Council.
dig around the well
mobilized for more than 48 hours, the rescue teams, could not come down directly into the well because “its diameter does not exceed 45 centimeters,” said Abdelhabi Temrani, responsible for the rescue operation, at Public television Al Oula. Rescutors first thought “to expand the diameter of the well but it was not possible because of the nature of the earth that could lead to a landslide”, detailed on its side the spokesman of the executive .
Only solution: dig around the well to save the child whose survival has aroused enormously sympathy and solidarity on social networks, until the neighboring Algeria and yet rival. The direct of several Moroccan media are followed by minute by hundreds of thousands of Internet users, hanging from the child.
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The Hashtag #Sauvezrayan (in Arabic) is always among the main trends of Twitter in Morocco. The Moroccan international and star of the PSG Ashraf Hakimi returned to Instagram an illustration, accompanied by two emojis: the broken heart and the joined hands of the prayer. Algerian Riyad Mahrez, Manchester City Star, has not been left out, sharing on Facebook a photo of Rayan lined with hashtagh #Stay Strong (remains strong).
The emotion is such that the inhabitants of the region have flocked “in large numbers” on the scene of the drama, sometimes hindering the work of the rescue teams. “Rescuers work in very difficult conditions. Citizens are called to let them work to save this child”, urged Mr. Baitas.