Rescuers are digging an open slit trench from an angle at the surface to try to reach the point where the boy has been trapped for two days.
(Al Jazeera) – Rescuers in Afghanistan are scrambling to reach a nine-year-old boy trapped for two days down a well in southern Zabul province.
The operation in Shokak village comes less than two weeks after a similar attempt to rescue a child from a well in Morocco captured the world’s attention – but that operation ended with the boy found dead.
Videos shared on social media on Thursday showed a boy identified as Haidar wedged in the well, able to move his arms and upper body.
“Are you OK my son?” his father can be heard saying. “Talk with me and don’t cry, we are working to get you out.”
“OK, I’ll keep talking,” the boy replies in a plaintive voice.
The video was obtained by rescuers lowering a camera down the narrow well by rope.
Local officials said the boy appeared trapped about 10 metres (33 feet) down the 25-metre shaft.
