In southwestern Vietnam, emergency services are still extracting the body of a 10-year-old boy from a 35-meter-deep concrete pipe. Authorities had pronounced little Nam dead 100 hours after the horrific accident at a construction site on Wednesday evening. The aid workers now want to change their strategy and no longer want to pull the whole pipe out of the ground, Doan Tan Buu, deputy head of government of Dong Thap province, told reporters on Thursday.
Instead, the heavy pipe should be cut into three parts and lifted gradually. The first part could be brought to the surface as early as Thursday, Buu said. However, the emergency services believed that the child was trapped in the second part. The exact whereabouts of the boy is still unclear. For days, all attempts to lift the concrete pipe out of the ground with a crane failed.
Signs of life are only audible ten minutes after the accident
A team of doctors, coroners and local authorities had previously concluded that the boy’s death was due to several factors. In addition to the location of the accident, this also involved the depth of the pipeline, the duration of the rescue work and any injuries he may have sustained. There were reportedly only signs of life for the first ten minutes after the fall.
Bub was malnourished and weighed only 20 kilograms
The child fell into the tube on Saturday at the site of a construction site for a new bridge. It is only about 25 centimeters in diameter. Authorities said no one thought a 10-year-old could be trapped that deep in the tube. However, according to the information, Nam was malnourished and weighed less than 20 kilograms. The army also participated in the rescue work.
Source: Krone
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