Five-Year-Old Boy Stuck At Bottom Of 100ft Well For Three Days

A 5-year-old boy has been trapped at the bottom of a 105ft well for three days in Morocco.

Gatekeepers News reports that rescuers inched closer Friday to reaching the boy identified as Rayan who fell into a 32-metre (105-feet) shaft, located outside his home in the village of Ighran in the northern province of Chefchaouen, on Tuesday evening.

According to Morocco’s official MAP news agency, search crews first used five bulldozers to dig vertically to a depth of more than 31 metres, then on Friday, they started excavating a horizontal tunnel to reach the trapped boy.

“Digging has stopped momentarily out of concern that the ground surrounding the well could collapse,'” rescue committee member Abdelhadi Temrani told local television 2M.

It was gathered that rescue workers used a rope to provide oxygen and water to the boy, but were unable to reach him via the hole where he is trapped due to its narrow diameter.

“I pray and beg God that he comes out of that well alive and safe,” his mother Wassima Kharchich told 2M. “Please God, ease my pain and his, in that hole of dust.”

Medical staff, including specialists in resuscitation, are on-site to attend to the boy once he is pulled out, with a helicopter on standby to transport him to the nearest hospital.

The operation to save the young boy’s life entered its third day on Friday, with Moroccans still waiting anxiously after authorities and firefighters continued to dig a trench parallel to the well in an attempt to pull him out.