Bimbo falls into a 35-metre well: it's a race against time

In Vietnam , a 10-year-old boy fell into a 35-metre- deep well. On the scene, hundreds of rescuers fight against time to save his life.

It happened on a bridge construction site in the south of the country. Little Ly Hao Nam, probably looking for scrap metal, fell into a hollow concrete pillar just 25 centimeters wide .

“We are doing our best. We cannot yet say – said a rescuer – what condition he is in. The authorities are not sure of his current health conditions ». "The little one would have stopped interacting with the outside world even if he was continuously supplied with oxygen", reads the pages of the Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre.

Meanwhile, rescuers tried to drill and soften the surrounding ground in an attempt to lift the pillar and pull the child out . Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday called on federal rescuers to join local authorities in the rescue efforts.

(Unioneonline/vf)