Moroccan rescuers dig to save boy stuck down well for 2 days
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Rescue workers in northern Morocco are frantically digging for the second straight day to reach a 5-year-old boy trapped in a 32-meter (105-foot) -deep well
RABAT, Morocco -- Rescue workers in northern Morocco are frantically digging for a second straight day to reach a 5-year-old boy trapped down a 32-meter (105-foot) deep well, officials said Thursday.
The boy has been stuck in the well, located in the northern village of Ighran in Morocco's Chefchaouen province, since Tuesday evening. Rescuers said Thursday they have managed to get down oxygen and water to him, and got a response from him.
“I pray and beg God that he comes out of that well alive and safe," his mother Wassima Kharchich told local television 2M. “Please God, ease my pain and his, in that hole of dust.”
Khalid Agoram, the boy’s father, told another local broadcaster that he been looking for his son for hours on Tuesday before discovering that he had fallen into the well.
