Hundreds of rescuers in Vietnam were fighting for a third day Monday to save a 10-year-old boy who fell more than 30 feet down a concrete shaft at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.
The boy was reportedly heard calling for help shortly after falling through a narrow, 25-centimeter-wide open pit of a concrete pile at a bridge construction site in the Mekong Delta province on Saturday morning. while looking for junk with friends.
But as of Monday, he has not been responding to rescuers, who lowered a camera to help locate the boy’s position on the estimated 115-foot-long support pillar, according to Reuters.
Efforts to raise the pile with cranes and pillars have so far been unsuccessful.
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Rescuers look at the site where a 10-year-old boy is believed to be trapped in a 35-meter-deep well at a bridge construction area in Vietnam’s Dong Thap province on January 2, 2023.
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“I can’t understand how it fell into the hollow concrete pile, which has a diameter of one section (25 cm) only, and was sunk 35 meters into the ground,” said Le Hoang Bao, director of the provincial Department of Transportation. by Dong Thap. Tuoi Tre News, a local newspaper, according to Reuters.
Hundreds of rescuers in Vietnam struggled on January 2 to free a 10-year-old boy who fell into a 35-meter-deep hole at a construction site two days ago.
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The newspaper reported that rescuers are “unsure of the boy’s current condition” as he “has stopped interacting with the outside even though oxygen has always been pumped into” the hole.
AFP identified the trapped 10-year-old boy as Thai Ly Hao Nam. Video showed the boy’s distraught family members being led away from the scene as they waited for word on his condition.
Several rescuers and construction workers dig around a concrete hole to save the boy.
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Crews have also been drilling and softening the surrounding soil to try, so far without success, to lift the concrete pillar.
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According to AFP, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday called on federal rescuers to join the efforts of local authorities to save the boy.
