Eighrane, Morocco: Morocco will shake the week after the emergency crew found a five-year-old boy died at the bottom of the well at a tragic end for a tiring five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world.
The trial “Little Rayan” because he fell well on Tuesday afternoon gaining global attention and triggered an outpouring of sympathy online, with Arabic tags # trending.
Throughout the operation to release him from the bottom of the 32 meter well (100 feet), the authorities have warned that they did not know whether he was still alive.
And reflecting emotions triggered by drama, it was the cabinet of the Moroccan kingdom that announced he had been found dead.
“After the tragic accident that cost the life of the child of Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI called the old man from the boy who died after falling with a well,” said a royal court.
On Saturday afternoon, the rescue of the crew, using the bulldozer and front-end loader, had diged the red earth around it to the level at which the boy was trapped, and the drill team began to create a horizontal tunnel to contact him from the side.
But the progress slowed to the speed of the snail when the drill team worked by hand to avoid the vibration that might bring fragile land to children being hit, the local government said.
The AFP correspondents saw the old boy walking down the slope into a horizontal tunnel, it looked destroyed, before returning and riding an ambulance without saying a word.
After the confusion period, the crowd began to spread in the silence of Sombre.
The family has not announced the funeral date, but according to the Muslim tradition it must occur soon, in principle on Sunday.
‘Very tragic’
History flows after news that rescue efforts have failed to recover the lines of life.
“I want to tell Little Rayan’s family and to the Moroccan people that we share your pain,” said French President Emmanuel Macron on Facebook.
“Rayan courage will remain in our memory and continue to inspire us,” Writing the Algerian midfielder AC Milan Ismael Bennacer in a tweet accompanied by a picture of a child lifted into the sky, brought by a heart-shaped balloon characterized by colors. Morocco.
“We have all held hopes that small rayan will succeed,” Laila’s Moroccan-American novelist wrote on Twitter. “This is very tragic.”
Compete against time
Thousands of people have gathered and even camped in solidarity around the location in the past few days, where AFP reporter said tension had been palpable.
Some have clapped to encourage rescuers, singing religious songs or praying, challenging simultaneously “Allahu Akbar” (God’s greatest).
Workers have tried to get oxygen and water to the child but it is not clear whether he can use it, AFP correspondents reported.
“I continue to hope that my child will come out of a good life,” Rayan’s father told 2m public television on Friday night. “I thank everyone involved and those who support us in Morocco and elsewhere.”
He said before that Sunday he had fixed a well when the boy fell.
The shaft, only 45 centimeters (18 inches) on the other side, too narrow for boys to be contacted directly, and widened it was considered too risky – so the drive of the earth explored a wide slope up the hill to contact him from the side.
This operation makes the landscape resembling construction sites, and red-helmet civilian personnel are sometimes suspended by rope, as if on the face of the cliff.
Spending the night they worked without stopping under a strong spotlight that gave gloomy air to the scene.