The minor fell into a concrete pillar 35 meters deep on Saturday
The Vietnamese authorities on Wednesday pronounced the boy dead, who had been trapped in a concrete pillar 35 meters deep since Saturday. Rescue teams have unsuccessfully tried to pull Thai Ly Hao Nam out of the hole, which is only 25 centimeters wide.
The events took place in Dong Thap province, in the Mekong River delta, in the south of the country. The minor, aged 10, was out with three friends looking for scrap metal at a bridge construction site when he tripped and fell into the pillar.
Doan Tan Buu, deputy chief of the province, pronounced the boy dead. “He is trapped in a very deep hollow pillar, with multiple injuries and without enough oxygen for a long time,” he told reporters. “We have prioritized his rescue, but the circumstances make it impossible for him to survive,” he added. Buu said the announcement of the boy’s death was made after consultation with medical experts.
In any case, work continues as the rescue teams are determined to get his body to the surface as soon as possible to bury it, but Buu admitted it is a “very difficult task”.
Vietnam mobilized hundreds of soldiers and technical experts on Tuesday to try to rescue the boy. A 60-foot (19 m) long metal pipe was lowered around the concrete pipe the boy was trapped in so that the mud could be removed and tried to remove, but to no avail.
Source: La Verdad
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