Spain: race against the clock to save a boy fallen into a well

The Spanish authorities were on Monday in a race against time to try to save a two-year-old who had fallen the day before in a well over 100 meters deep, a case that holds Spain in suspense.

"The relief workers are hard at work to reach the bottom of the well, where a two-year-old boy fell in early Sunday afternoon in Totalan, in the province of Malaga. (...) We did not no news for the moment, "said Monday on Twitter the emergency services of Andalusia, the region where the accident occurred.

Terrible momentos in the rescuer of a backside años that ha caído in a pozo artesiano in Totalàn, Málaga. Bomberos, Guardia Civil and sanitary insurance. Todo nuestro apoyo y ánimo has sus padres, deseando that salga sano y salvo. pic.twitter.com/ajFo42mAsS

According to his family, the child fell into the unmarked 25 cm wide hole for water while he was playing near his parents' lunch in the mountains. Her parents are "slaughtered" and "supported from the beginning by a team of psychologists," said Spanish radio RNE Elena Trigo, spokeswoman for Andalusian relief services.

A message of support from the head of the government. The case is closely followed by the Spanish media and has generated many comments on social networks including that of the head of government Pedro Sanchez who said on Twitter share "the anguish of the boy's family" and called to keep "the hope of a happy ending".

Comparto the angustia of the familia del pequeño of back años that ha caído in a pozo in # Totalán # Malaga.
Todo mi apoyo a los padres y los los equipos de emergencias están participando en el rescate. Mantengamos the esperanza in el mejor desenlace. https://t.co/z3CeGMfJET

A hundred rescuers have been mobilized since Sunday at midday for this extremely complex mission. They have already tried unsuccessfully to locate the child by introducing cameras into the well. So far, only a bag of candy that held the boy was found in the well, said Maria Gamez, the prefect of the province of Malaga, on the Antena 3 television channel.

"No one is technically prepared." The research is "very complicated" because of the characteristics of the well whose walls are not stable. "It's wet, cold, it's not easy to continue research (...) Nobody is technically prepared to" rescue "in such a narrow space," she noted.

The government representative in the area, however, assured that technologies allowing access to narrow and deep places existed and were being considered, adding that many Spanish companies had proposed their solutions.