In the Spanish municipality of Totalán forces are still looking for a two-year-old boy, who is said to have crashed less than two days ago when playing in a well over one hundred meters deep hole.
It was decided to dig a horizontal tunnel from a slope. So the helpers want to approach the place where the boy is suspected, reported several Spanish media, including "La Vanguardia" and "El País". This is the "safest option," said the government delegate in Malaga, María Gámez according to "La Vanguardia". Other options would have been considered, such as digging a vertical tunnel next to the borehole.
The two-year-old is said to have fallen on Sunday afternoon at a trip of his family in the country in the open pit, which has only a diameter of about 25 centimeters. With a camera, the helpers penetrated to a depth of almost 80 meters and found there a bag of sweets that had the child with him. Because earth has come loose that clogs the shaft, the camera has not been able to move forward, the rescue teams said. The shaft is 110 meters deep.
DPA / Bomberos De Malaga / Europa Press
Borehole in the province of Málaga
The police admitted on Monday that they did not have "physical proof" that the child was actually in the hole. Based on the information provided by the parents, who would have heard the child crying in the shaft, one excludes other possibilities at first. However, some experts doubted that the boy was actually there, writes "La Vanguardia". According to Spanish media reports, the family had already lost a child in 2017. The two-year-old's brother died at the age of three.
In the search for the boy participated numerous members of the fire department, the police, civil defense and other emergency services.