Ten days after the death of little Rayan in Morocco, who fell into a well, a similar accident is currently taking place in Afghanistan.

A 9-year-old boy has been stuck since Tuesday in a 25-meter-deep dry well in a village in the southeastern province of Zabul.

"A team is there with an ambulance, oxygen and other necessary things" to rescue the child, whose "health is good and who sometimes requires food and water", said in a statement. tweeted Abdullah Azzam, secretary to Deputy Prime Minister, Abdul Ghani Baradar.

The exact circumstances of the child's fall into the well, which was dry and in the ground, were not known at this stage.

It would be stuck about ten meters deep.

Thursday, in videos posted on social networks, we see the young Afghan, named Haidar, dressed in a blue sweater, sitting stuck in the well, his shoulders against the wall, and who can visibly move his arms and upper body slightly. of his body.

A video shows the child at the bottom of the well

We also see a lamp suspended in front of the child and which illuminates the bottom of the well, located in the village of Shokhak.

The images were obtained by a camera lowered with a wire into the cavity.

In one of the videos, we hear the child crying and moaning and in another we hear him talking with his father, in a more distant voice.

may Allah protect him mskn #SaveHaidari pic.twitter.com/37kPBrbVH0

— mSa⁷ ¡*𝚔𝚓 HOBI DAY (@mkjsaa) February 17, 2022

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“Haidar, speak with me, we are trying to get you out.

Are you okay my son?

Talk to me and don't cry, we are working to get you out,” the father said.

“Okay, I'll keep talking,” the boy replies in a small plaintive voice.

Excavators opened large trenches in the earth to try to access the well.

Relief "is working to ensure that the child is not injured by the collapse of the well," said Ahmadullah Wasiq, one of the spokespersons for the ruling Taliban, in a tweet.

“The Ministry of Defense is ready to deliver equipment by helicopter if necessary,” he added.

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