Little Nam didn't make it . The 10-year -old Vietnamese boy , trapped for 4 days in a 35-metre deep well near a construction site in the Mekong Delta province, was pronounced dead by local authorities .
Rescuers spent nearly 100 hours trying to free him , but to no avail.
"Authorities have determined that the boy is dead and are trying to recover the body ," said the vice president of the southern province of Dong Thap, Doan Tan Bu.
THE DRAMA – The incident in Vietnam occurred on New Year's Eve : little Thai Ly Hao Nam was near a bridge construction site in the Mekong Delta province, where he was looking for scrap metal with friends , when it fell into a concrete pipe just 25 cm wide and 35 meters deep. Immediately after slipping inside, the little boy screamed desperately for help and rescuers intervened almost immediately , but on Monday the emergency teams no longer received any sign of life despite having pumped oxygen into the well to help the boy breathe.
With the help of special equipment, rescuers continued for days trying to loosen the earth around the pipeline so that it could be hauled up with a crane. Unfortunately without arriving on time. A team of local doctors has come to the conclusion that the little one died due to various factors : the place of the accident, the depth of the crater, the duration of the rescue efforts and the possible injuries sustained during the fall were fatal.
The authorities have admitted that the operations to recover the body are quite difficult.
(Unioneonline/vl)
