A terrible drama has played out in Vietnam: a ten-year-old fell into a 35-metre-deep shaft on a construction site on Saturday afternoon. Rescue efforts to free the victim from the pipe, which is only 25 centimeters in diameter, are still underway. It is not known how the boy is doing – the child has stopped communicating with the helpers.
The boy, named Thai Ly Hao, is said to hang out with three friends at the bridge construction site collecting scrap metal. He fell into a concrete pipe embedded in the ground. Oxygen has been pumped into this since the accident so that the child does not suffocate – but it was finally reported on Monday that rescuers had lost contact with the boy. “We are doing what we can. We do not know how the boy is doing,” said one of the emergency services.
The concrete pipe must be pulled out of the ground
An attempt has already been made to lower a rope into the shaft to pull the child out. But the concrete pipe is too narrow, so the 10-year-old couldn’t tie it around his body, rescuers said, according to vietnamnet.vn. Now an attempt is made to soften the ground and pull the entire concrete pipe out of the ground. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh issued a directive on Monday calling for inter-ministerial cooperation to speed up the rescue.
Concrete pillars were not covered
The bridge project, on the construction site from which the boy fell down the shaft, started six months ago. The concrete piles are not covered after driving into the ground. The prime minister demanded that security measures be strengthened at the project to prevent similar incidents.
Source: Krone
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