Rescuers inched closer Friday to reaching a five-year-old boy trapped for three days in a Morocco well in an operation hampered by concerns about ground stability that has captivated the North African country.
The boy, identified as Rayan, fell into a 32-metre deep well located outside his home in the village of Ighran in Morocco’s northern Chefchaouen province on Tuesday evening.
Search crews first used five bulldozers over days to dig vertically to a depth of more than 31 metres, according to Morocco’s official MAP news agency. Then on Friday, they started excavating a horizontal tunnel to reach the trapped boy, MAP said.
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