The rescue teams fought against time, but they did not succeed. When they approached him at the well 42 meters deep he was already dead. The five-day operation was extremely difficult.
Hundreds of villagers prayed for days to keep alive Ryan, the five-year-old boy who fell into a 32-meter-deep dry well near his parents’ house in the village of Igran in northern Morocco. It all started when his father started repair work and in a few minutes the damage was done. From carelessness. The problem for the rescue teams was that the diameter of the well was only 45 cm so that the rescuers could not go down immediately to raise the little one. So a whole business was set up. With a tragic ending.
Race against time
Rescue crews made a titanic effort. The only solution to reach the child was difficult and time consuming. First, they lowered a camera from the narrow opening to monitor the child and provided him with water and food. At the same time, they opened a horizontal tunnel to the point where the little one was, an extremely complex operation, because there was a risk of rocks slipping and falling on the little one. Rescue images went around the world. From Europe and Africa to Asia and America. Dozens of Moroccans gathered in the area next to the well. With prayers and exhortations they tried to give courage to the rescuers.
Until yesterday afternoon, everything seemed to be a matter of time before they approached little Ryan. “There are still two meters left, I hope we can reach without a problem,” Abdelhadi Temrani, head of the rescue team, assured yesterday. “The operation is carried out with great care. Inside are 11 civil protection workers, technicians from the topographic service, people digging and technicians. We move very carefully. It is not possible to dig quickly and hard due to the cracks in the soil and the presence of another well “.
He did not make it to the end
But the video camera showed the little boy’s back tilted to the side. And as Temrani added, it was impossible to say for sure whether Ryan was alive or not. The tragic certainty came late at night. The parents of the child who were already at the scene were the first to hear the tragic news. “I can not describe how I feel,” says Mohammed Saeed, the boy’s cousin, with tears in his eyes. “My cousin is gone, what else can I say?” “My heart aches for him, too,” said his aunt. “For my nephew, my heart hurts. May God be with him, just as he stood with us. “
Half an hour after the retrieval of the dead child, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, contacted his parents by phone, as announced by the royal house. The whole country is mired in mourning. The tragic news spread like wildfire. Everyone was hoping until the last minute. The accident is reminiscent of a similar case of two-year-old Yulen in Spain. In 2019 he fell into a well of 100 meters. The diameter of the opening was only 25 cm. And he did not succeed. After 13 days he was pulled out dead.
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