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Rayan: Moroccan boy trapped in well for four days dies

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The parents of five-year-old Rayan are seen after rescue workers carried his body to an ambulance in Morocco's Chefchaouen province, 5 February 2022

Rayan’s parents leaving the scene after their son’s body is taken away by ambulance

A five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him.

A royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well.

The bid to free the boy, named as Rayan, had gripped the country, with hundreds of people gathered at the well and thousands more following online.

The boy plunged 32m (104ft) through the well’s narrow opening. The rescue had been hampered by fears of a landslide.

Rescuers finally brought the boy out of the well on Saturday evening.

No word had been given at the time about his condition, and the apparent rescue was initially met with cheers from the crowds.

On social media, people using the hashtag #SaveRayan, which had been trending across the country and beyond, expressed their jubilation.

But this turned to heartbreak minutes later when the statement came announcing that Rayan had died.

Twitter users then began paying tribute and expressing sadness using the same hashtag.

“Following the tragic accident which cost the life of the child Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI called the parents of the boy who died after falling down the well,” the statement from the royal palace said.

The king had expressed his deepest condolences and sincere compassion, it added.

Graphic shows the depth of the wellGraphic shows the depth of the well

Graphic shows the depth of the well

Rayan’s father was repairing the well at the time of the accident. He said his son fell in at “the one moment he took his eyes off him”.

Led by Morocco’s Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, began on Tuesday evening.

Footage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, but there had been no update on his condition since then.

Rescuers tried to get oxygen, food and water to the boy but it was unclear whether he was able to use them.

The mixture of rocky and sandy soils meant rescuers deemed opening the water well’s narrow shaft to be too dangerous.

Instead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well.

a huge hole next to the wella huge hole next to the well

Rescuers dug a huge hole next to the well (front, centre)

Rescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy. Some worked round the clock, using powerful floodlights during the night.

Hundreds of people gathered to watch the operation, singing religious songs, praying and chanting “Allahu Akbar”. Some even camped at the site.

The incident is reminiscent of a similar tragedy in Spain in 2019, in which a two-year-old boy died after falling into a borehole near the city of Malaga.

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