#AceNewsReport – Feb.05: Online messages of support and concern for the boy, Rayan, poured in from around the world as the rescue efforts dragged through the night.

#AceDailyNews says according AP.Org/ News Report: Rescuers in Morocco hit snag as they dig towards a boy who’s been trapped in a well for four days

Key points:

• The boy is trapped in a hole too narrow for rescuers to reach safely
• There is no update on his condition
• Water and oxygen have been sent down to him by rope

Fears are growing that that it may be too late.

Rescuers used a rope to send oxygen and water down to the boy as well as a camera to monitor him. 

By Saturday morning, the head of the rescue committee, Abdelhadi Temrani, said he feared for the child’s safety.

“It is not possible to determine the child’s condition at all at this time. But we hope to God that the child is alive,” he said.

Rayan fell into a 32-metre well located outside his home in the village of Ighran in Morocco’s mountainous northern Chefchaouen province on Tuesday evening.

He is now trapped in a hole too narrow for rescuers to reach safely.

For three days, search crews used bulldozers to dig a parallel ditch. Then on Friday, they started excavating a horizontal tunnel to reach the trapped boy. 

Morocco’s MAP news agency said that experts in topographical engineering were called upon for help.

Mr Temrani, speaking to local television, said on Saturday that rescuers had just two metres left to dig to reach the hole where the boy is trapped.

“The diggers encountered a hard rock on their way, and were therefore very careful to avoid any landslides or cracks,” he said. 

“It took about five hours to get rid of the rock because the digging was slow and done in a careful way to avoid creating cracks in the hole from below, which could threaten the life of the child as well as the rescue workers,” Mr Temrani said.

The work has been especially difficult because of fears that the soil surrounding the well could collapse on the boy.

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

His distraught parents have been joined by hundreds of villagers and others who have gathered to watch the rescue operation.

The village of about 500 people is dotted with deep wells, many used for irrigating the cannabis crop that is the main source of income for many in the poor, remote and arid region of Morocco’s Rif Mountains.

Most of the wells have protective covers.

The exact circumstances of how the boy fell in the well are unclear.

AP/ABC/Local Media/

#AceNewsDesk report ………..Published: Feb.05: 2022:

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