Race against time to save Ryan, the child who fell into the well

Ryan is conscious and asks for water, while rescuers are engaged in a race against time to extract him from the 32-meter deep well - the new measure provided by the technicians - in which he fell on Tuesday in the Chefchaouen area, Morocco.

The little one is five years old, a video camera caught him sitting at the bottom of that chasm, calling his mother, answering questions and even ate something while being constantly supplied with oxygen.

In the meantime, to free it, an alternative tunnel has been dug with all the risks of collapse that this entails and at every sign of a landslide everything stops and then resumes extremely slowly. You can't risk the baby falling even lower. Now there are a few meters left.

Four days ago he was playing near his home when he ended up in the 30 to 20 centimeter wide well that no longer has water and was about to be secured, protected only by a tarp and a few pieces of wood.

The deployment of forces in the field is enormous, and the whole country is following the operations with bated breath. A bit like what happened in Italy in 1981 when it was hoped to save Alfredino Rampi.

(Unioneonline / ss)

PICTURES:

I soccorritori al lavoro per salvare il bimbo

Ryan, il bimbo precipitato nel pozzo

Si lavora di giorno e di notte ininterrottamente

L'incidente è avvenuto nella regione di Chefchaouen

I soccorritori al lavoro

Il bimbo è a circa 30 metri di profondità

Enorme il dispiegamento di forze in campo

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Pochi metri per raggiungere il piccolo Ryan caduto nel pozzo: soccorritori al lavoro