Days after a 10-year-old boy in Vietnam fell into a 35-meter-deep concrete pipe, authorities pronounced him dead. The boy died during several failed rescue attempts, the official said Wednesday night (local time).
Doan Tan Buu, the vice premier of South Vietnam’s Dong Thap province, told reporters they now want to recover his body as soon as possible. The concrete column must therefore be removed from the ground in the evening. However, Buu admitted that the emergency services had no experience with this type of rescue work.
Pipe was only 25 centimeters in diameter
Little Nam fell into the pipeline in Phu Loi township on Saturday at the site of a construction site for a new bridge, as evidenced by surveillance video footage (see above). The tube is only about 25 centimeters in diameter. At the construction site, the boy wanted to collect pieces of iron with three neighbors. After the accident, it was said that no one thought a ten-year-old could be so deep in the tube – however, Nam was reportedly malnourished and weighed less than 20 kilograms.
The army also participated in the rescue work. With special equipment, the rescuers tried for days, among other things, to loosen the earth around the pipe so that it could be pulled up with a crane. According to media reports, the boy initially called for help after his fall. The emergency services had repeatedly pumped oxygen into the depths.
father burst into tears
“It’s a sad thing,” Buu said on Wednesday. His father burst into tears at the scene of the accident when the boy was pronounced dead. A team of doctors, coroners and local authorities concluded that the boy’s death was due to several factors. In addition to the location of the accident, this also concerned the depth of the pipeline, the duration of the rescue work and any injuries he had sustained.
Source: Krone
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