Rescuers race against time to reach boy trapped in Afghanistan well for two days

Rescuers were desperately scrambling Thursday to reach a nine-year-old boy trapped for two days down a well in a remote southern Afghan village.

The operation in Shokak village, Zabul province, comes less than two weeks after a similar attempt to rescue a child from a Moroccan well gripped the world -- but ended with the boy found dead.

Video shared on social media -- including by officials of Afghanistan's new Taliban government -- showed a boy identified as Haidar wedged in the well, able to move his arms and upper body.