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Morocco: Race against time to save little Rayan, stuck in a well
The whole country holds its breath.
Rescuers continued to fight against time overnight from Thursday to Friday to try to save a five-year-old boy, stuck in a deep well in a village in northern Morocco since Tuesday afternoon.
The drilling works "reached more than 27 meters, with the hope of reaching 32 meters in the next few hours, before digging a horizontal gap of 3 meters between the hole and the well to recover the child", a reported the MAP news agency.
A medical team was dispatched to the scene of the accident to "carry out initial examinations and resuscitation interventions for the child once rescued", added MAP.
A gendarmerie helicopter is ready to evacuate the child to a nearby hospital.
Covid-19, controversies ... Opening of the Beijing Olympics in a heavy context
Beijing will become Friday the first city to organize the Summer and Winter Olympics and thus enter Olympic history.
As in 2008, the astonishing Beijing National Stadium, better known by the nickname "Bird's Nest", will be the scene of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Olympics from 8 p.m. (1 p.m. French time). show will feature 14,000 extras, fireworks and special effects.
The current context, between Covid-19, diplomatic tensions and controversy, nevertheless undermines the morale of athletes.
They are 2,900 in the running for 109 Olympic titles.
The competition has not yet started that some are already cracking up against the health protocol, this is the case of the Belgian sportswoman Kim Meylemans.
Reunion: The sailors of the Mauritian oil tanker, stranded off the island, saved
Thursday evening, a Mauritian oil tanker ran aground near the coast of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, overturned by cyclone Batsirai.
The island has been swept for more than 24 hours by this powerful atmospheric mass whose authorities anticipate an intensification of winds and rains.
The ship's crew was finally rescued and brought ashore overnight from Thursday to Friday.
"The perilous, very technical and unprecedented operation to rescue the 11 sailors from the TrestaStar ship took place successfully between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.", greeted the prefect of the island.
Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu clarified earlier that the tanker was sailing "empty", ruling out at this stage the "risk of serious maritime pollution by hydrocarbons".
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