China News Service, Xi'an, May 15 (Reporter Alina Party Tianye Meiyutaki) A three-year-old boy in Xi'an fell into the sewer network on the evening of the 12th and was washed away, and has lost contact since then.
In an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com on the 15th, the family of the missing boy said that the child has been missing for nearly three days, and there is no news at present. He hopes that the relevant departments will make every effort to search and rescue and give the family a result.
As of press time, the missing boy has not been found, and the search and rescue work is still in progress.
The reporter saw at the incident site on the 15th that the well that the boy fell from was located under a highway bridge near the entrance of Huixi Village, Weiyang District, Xi'an City. The wellhead of the well was rectangular and covered with an iron plate.
At present, the iron plate on the manhole cover has been fixed with 4 screws.
Several family members, including the boy's father, are still at the scene awaiting the results.
The picture shows search and rescue personnel conducting search and rescue in the sewers near the accident site.
Dang Tianye photo
According to the boy's father, Mr. Yang, he is from Jiangxi and works in Xi'an.
On May 12, he took his child to visit relatives in Huixi Village.
When I went home at 21 o'clock in the evening, it was raining and there were no street lights under the bridge. The child stumbled and fell into the sewer without a manhole cover.
"After the child fell, I immediately rushed to the sewer to rescue, but I didn't catch the child." Mr. Yang said that he had tried many times to lean in to find the child, but because the sewer was narrow, he ultimately failed. , Multiple contusions in the waist.
A villager in Huixi Village told reporters that the well is usually covered with iron plates. On the day of the incident, it rained in Xi'an, and there was water accumulation in the bridge hole, which may be the loose iron plate.
A staff member from Weiyang District, Xi'an City said that after the incident, various local departments carried out search and rescue efforts, and organized the dispatch of ambulances, flood control vehicles, dredging vehicles, divers and professional rescuers.
And invited municipal pipe network experts to analyze and judge, and issue a rescue plan.
The picture shows the detection of the air quality of the sewer and preparation for the search and rescue of the staff.
Photo by Alina
On the 15th, the reporter saw at the search and rescue site of a sewer well not far from the incident site. After the staff conducted ventilation and air testing on the pipeline, search and rescue personnel dressed in professional equipment subsequently carried out underwater search and rescue work.
According to the on-site staff, rescue work has continued since the outbreak.
It is understood that the search and rescue personnel checked the pipelines of the sewer wells within a few kilometers near the accident site one by one, and the pipelines that the search and rescue personnel could not enter were probed by underwater robots.
At present, the search and rescue work is still in progress, and the cause of the accident is also under investigation.
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