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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