Today, Friday, the Afghan Ministry of Interior confirmed the death of the child Haider, who was pulled out of a 25-meter-deep well in Zabul province (southern Afghanistan).

The ministry said that the rescue operations of Haider (5 years) in the village of Shukak in Zabul lasted 58 hours, in the presence of a large gathering of citizens, ministers and local officials.

She added that she did her best to save the child's life in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works, expressing her regret for his death.

"He left us forever. It is a new day of mourning and sadness for our country," the advisor in the Afghan Ministry of Interior, Anas Haqqani, wrote on Twitter about the fate of the child.

In turn, Abdullah Azzam, Secretary of Abdul Ghani Baradar, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan, posted a tweet on Twitter in which he wrote: "Haider has left us."

The local authorities used excavators who dug a large sloping trench in the ground, in an attempt to reach the place where the child was stuck.

Official sources reported that the child slipped into this well, then was pulled by a rope to a depth of about 10 meters, but was stuck there.

All the people joined hands to save the Afghan child Haider, and all moral and material reasons were made, but God's judgment is above everything, and we are satisfied with his decree and destiny.


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Police spokesman in Zabul province, Zabihullah Jawhar, said Haidar was still alive and breathing when paramedics reached him.

He added that paramedics gave him oxygen, but when they tried to transfer him to a helicopter, he died.

And video clips published yesterday, Thursday, on social networking sites, showed the Afghan child - who was wearing a blue jacket - stuck in a sitting position in the well, and he was resting his shoulders on the wall and he could clearly move his arms and upper body.

The last efforts of the rescuers were hampered by a large boulder, forcing them to use hand shovels to avoid causing major jolts in the ground.

And the French press agency quoted Abdul Hadi - Haider's grandfather - that his grandson fell while men were digging a well in this drought-stricken village.

The death of the Afghan child recalls the death of the Moroccan child Rayan, who recently passed away while trying to pull him out of a well he fell into near the city of Chefchaouen.