Vietnamese authorities announced Wednesday that the 10-year-old boy trapped in a 115-foot-deep concrete hole since New Year’s Eve is reportedly dead.
The boy, identified as Thai Ly Hao Nam, was initially heard calling for help when he slipped through a 10-inch-diameter shaft at a bridge construction site in Dong Thap province on Saturday morning while searching for scrap metal. with friends.
Despite oxygen being pumped into the hole amid efforts to reach him, the boy stopped interacting with rescuers on Monday. Crews lowered a camera to try to determine his location.
The BBC reported on Wednesday that the boy was cut while rescuers tried to lift the pillar.
VIETNAM RESCUERS RUN TO SAVE BOY TRAPPED IN 115 FT CONCRETE HOLE SINCE NEW YEAR’S EVE
Doan Tan Buu, vice president of the Dong Thap Provincial People’s Committee, speaks to the media in Dong Thap province on January 4, 2023, as news broke of the death of a child trapped in a deep well at a site of construction.
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Doan Tan Buu, deputy chief of the South Vietnamese province, also said enough oxygen could not get to the 10-year-old boy, who had already suffered multiple injuries.
“We had prioritized the boy’s rescue. However, the conditions make it impossible for the boy to have survived,” he said.
Rescuers look at the site where a 10-year-old boy is believed to be trapped in a 35-meter-deep pit at a bridge construction site in Vietnam’s Dong Thap province on January 2, 2023.
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The official said he consulted with medical experts before declaring the boy dead on Wednesday, but teams will still work to recover the 10-year-old’s body as soon as possible for a proper burial, AFP reported. The official added that doing so would be a “very difficult task.”
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday called on federal rescuers to join efforts by local authorities to save the boy, AFP reported.
Hundreds of rescuers in Vietnam worked on January 2, 2023 to free a 10-year-old boy who fell into a 35-meter hole at a construction site two days earlier.
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Hundreds of soldiers and engineering experts were mobilized on Tuesday to try to save it, according to the BBC. Crews attempted to drill to soften the soil surrounding the pillar to try to get the pillar out of the ground. They also lowered a 62-foot pipe to try to remove mud and water to ease the pressure around the pillar.
