Frantic rescuers work to free sobbing boy, 9, trapped down 33ft-deep well for two days
dailystar.co.ukStay in the loop with all the latest Daily Star news by signing up for one of our free newsletters here. Abdullah Azzam, secretary to Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister, tweeted: "A team is there with an ambulance, oxygen and other necessary things."Sebghatullah Sadid, a freelance journalist working in Afghanistan, tweeted to say Haidar's health condition is reported as well by medics.Rescue workers have excavated a trench next to the well in a bid to reach the boy in an operation reminiscent of the doomed attempt to rescue five-year-old Rayan Awram in Morocco earlier this month.
Rayan’s body was recovered from the well in northern Morocco on the night of Saturday, February 5. Rescue workers had been working a round the clock to get the five-year-old out of the 100ft deep well in the hills near Chefchaouen.Rayan’s father, Khaled Aourram, told reporters that he had been repairing the well near the family home on the previous Tuesday when his son fell in.After the boy’s death, Moroccan MP Noureddine Moudiane called on the authorities to “put an end to informal well-digging, which often doesn’t follow the relevant legal procedures”..
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