The Moroccan rescue team
pulled little Rayan, five years old,
from the bottom of the well where he had been for five days, without
knowing his state of health at the moment.
The boy was urgently removed from the drilled hole and put into an ambulance that was waiting at the scene amid a large security deployment.
The Moroccan technicians finished the last phase of horizontal excavation to reach the little boy, giving way to
a team of rescuers
who entered the tunnel to remove him, as Efe was able to verify on the spot.
A medical team entered the tunnel with a stretcher where they have remained
for more than an hour inside
before the maximum expectation of hundreds of citizens and many journalists present at the scene.
And near the well was
an ambulance
equipped with Rayan's parents inside.
In the area, a large security device was deployed and several technicians, and members of the
Civil Protection, Civil Engineering, Topography experts
, as well as members of the Royal Gendarmerie and the Auxiliary Forces who formed a security barrier to prevent the approach of citizens to the place of rescue.
"You have to treat these last
70 or 80 centimeters
with all precision, technicality and professionalism; and that requires a lot of time, those last centimeters are the most difficult and important in this operation," the spokesman for the committee explained to the press at the scene. Surveillance and Rescue Tracking,
Abdelhadi Tamrani
.
He added that the Moroccan troops are also evacuating the
land clearing that accumulates
in the hole.
Sources from the local authorities told Efe that the operations in this phase are manual and proceed with great caution to avoid vibrations that
can cause landslides
.
Rayan fell last Tuesday into a narrow
32-meter-deep
hole in the northern town of Ighran.
To rescue him, the Moroccan troops first dug vertically parallel to the well and then horizontally, in a delicate operation in which small material is used due to the fragile nature of the land in the area to avoid cracks or landslides.
A helicopter
from the Royal Gendarmerie has moved to the place
to transfer the child if necessary.
Social networks in Morocco and in several countries in the Arab world
have turned since last Tuesday
to express their solidarity with the child's parents.
Many netizens changed their profile pictures to Rayan's.
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