Workers retrieved the body of a young boy who was trapped for five days Inside a well in northern Morocco, a devastating end to a painstaking operation that gripped the state.
Workers with mechanical diggers had laboured round the clock to save lots of the five-year-old child trapped in a very 32-metre deep well.
The royal palace said in a very statement carried by state media on Saturday that the boy had died before rescuers could save him.
Moroccan King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the boy’s parents.
“Following the tragic accident which cost the dear life of the kid Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohammed VI called Parents of the boy who died after falling down the well,” the statement said.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw the boy wrapped in a very yellow blanket after he was dole out from a tunnel dug specifically for the rescue.
His parents had been escorted to an ambulance before the body emerged. The ambulance reversed into the deep cut that rescue teams had excavated and took away the body.
The boy’s plight captured worldwide attention. Online messages of support and concern for Rayan poured in from round the world because the rescue efforts dragged on.
Footage posted on social media showed the scene after his body was recovered, with many distraught rescue workers and onlookers gathered at the location chanting and shining the flashlights of their phones into the air.
