There are now only a few meters to reach little Ryan, the child who fell into a well on Tuesday afternoon in Tamrout, near Chefchauen, Morocco. Three days after the flight that made him fall, near his home, in a hole 32 meters deep while he was playing, the 5-year-old boy is still alive. He is tired, tried, he has some wounds on his head, but he seems to still be breathing independently. At 6 this morning work began on the excavation of the horizontal tunnel. And on the microphones of a local broadcaster the head of the rescue committee said that Ryan asked for water at 3 am, when a small camera introduced into the well surprised him awake and conscious, after almost 60 hours of ordeal: " Ryan speaks and answers questions. "

On the Rif mountains the earth is hard, the recovery operations soon proved difficult. And the attempts to recover some volunteers like that of Hamid, who just like the Sardinian Angelo Licheri in the tragedy of Alfredino Rampi, lowered himself with his bare hands to try to rescue the child. Meanwhile Ryan was talking, asking about his mother. The solidarity of the whole of Morocco has tightened around the well and that anxious family.

Now the bulldozers are almost 30 meters deep and therefore very little is missing for recovery.

An ambulance is on site and a royal gendarmerie helicopter is stationary 5 kilometers from the crash site. Everything is ready for any eventuality.

THE FACTS - The little boy, just 5 years old, was playing on Tuesday in the fields, near his home, in the village of Tamrout, near Chefchauen, north of Morocco. His father was keeping an eye on him but suddenly he didn't see him anymore. Swallowed by the drained well that his father, a farmer, had covered with wood and plastic. A 32-meter flight between walls that were twenty centimeters narrow that somehow slowed the crash.

(Unioneonline / vl)