An operation is underway to rescue the child. The exact circumstances of his fall into the well are not known.
A 9-year-old boy has been trapped since Tuesday in a 25-meter-deep dry well in a village in Zabul province in southeastern Afghanistan, where an operation is underway to rescue the child, a learned AFP Thursday, February 17 from an official source.
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“A team is there with an ambulance, oxygen and other necessary thingsto rescue the child, including “health is good and sometimes requires food and watersaid Abdullah Azzam, secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar, in a tweet. The exact circumstances of the child’s fall into the well, which was dry and in the ground, were not known at this stage.
“We are working to get you out”
The accident is reminiscent of that in early February in Morocco of little Rayan, 5, who fell to the bottom of a dry well and was found dead after five days of relentless efforts by rescuers. The tragedy had caused considerable emotion, amplified by social networks, in Morocco and around the world. Thursday, in videos posted on social networks, we see the young Afghan, named Haidar, dressed in a blue sweater, sitting stuck at the bottom of the well, his shoulders against the wall, and who can visibly move his arms and upper body. We also see a lamp placed in front of the child, which illuminates the bottom of the well, located in the village of Shokhak.
The images were obtained by a camera lowered with a wire into the cavity. In one of the videos we hear the child crying and moaning, and in another we hear him talking with his father, in a more distant voice. “Haida, talk to me, we’re trying to get you out. Are you okay my son? Talk with me and don’t cry, we’re working to get you outsaid the father. “Alright I’ll keep talkingthe boy replies in a small, plaintive voice.
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Excavators opened large trenches in the earth to try to access the well. Rescue “work to ensure that the child is not injured by the collapse of the wellsaid Ahmadullah Wasiq, one of the spokespersons for the ruling Taliban, in a tweet. “The Ministry of Defense is ready to deliver equipment by helicopter if necessary“, he added.
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