Boy Trapped In Chinese Well Found Dead After Four Days
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 10, 2016 | 11:15 PM
BEIJING, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Nov, 2016 ) - A young boy who had been trapped down a well in China for more than four days was found dead Thursday, state media said, despite a desperate rescue attempt involving hundreds of people.
The six-year-old's body was discovered in the abandoned, narrow 80-metre (260-foot) deep well in Hebei province in northern China, the official Xinhua news agency said. He had been helping his father harvest vegetables in Baoding city on Sunday when he fell.
A team of more than 500 rescuers and 100 excavators arrived on the scene after the father made a call for help on social media, Xinhua said.
The 30-centimetre well shaft was too small for adults to enter, so rescuers widened it while pumping in oxygen, it added.
Photos showed teams of hard-hatted men hauling woven baskets filled with dirt away from the well's mouth, while digging machines scrabbled frantically at the dry brown earth around it, carving a wide, shallow crater. Multiple ambulances stood by on-site. Rescue efforts were hampered by the surrounding soil, whose soft and sandy consistency makes it prone to collapse.
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