Today, Friday, the Afghan authorities recovered the body of a child from a well he had fallen into four days ago.
After a round-the-clock struggle, rescuers managed to pull six-year-old Haider from a well regarding 25 meters deep.
A local journalist told the BBC that “the child was not responding or breathing when they took him out of the well in the southern Zabul province. Rescuers have not heard a sound coming from the well since Thursday,” according to reports.
Haider fell into a well on Tuesday when he slipped while walking on a road in a village in the district, a local official told the BBC.
For days, Haidar was crammed ten meters from the well, according to the French news agency. Rescuers dug a tunnel in the ground to reach the child.
In a tweet via Twitter, Anas Haqqani, a senior official in the Ministry of Interior of the Taliban government, said: “With great sadness, we mourn the young Haider who left us forever.”
This incident comes less than two weeks following a similar incident in Morocco.
The Moroccan child Rayan had fallen into a deep well at the beginning of February, and following the five-year-old spent five days at the bottom of the well, whose depth exceeded 30 meters, the Moroccan authorities were able to recover him, but his dead body was followed by millions through social media platforms. .
similar accidents
Similar incidents occurred in all parts of the world where victims fell into wells or disappeared into the depths of caves or mines.
The latest of these incidents occurred on Wednesday evening in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where a rural wedding turned into a tragedy at the bottom of a well.
Invitees to the party were standing on a metal roof covering a well when it fell under their weight, ending up killing 13 people, mostly women and children, in an incident described by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “heartbreaking”.
Ayyash the Algerian
Among those stories, too, is the tragedy of an Algerian young man named “Ayach”, who fell into an old well up to 100 meters deep in December 2018.
Ayyash was trapped in that well for four days, the first day of which he spent without anyone realizing that he had fallen until a child heard his screams.
Similar to the two rescue operations for Moroccan and Afghan children, Algerian civil defense workers began digging around the well until they reached the place where Ayyash was stuck, who might not live in his place for more than four days, while the excavation work continued for nine days to reach the target’s body.
In June 2020, a 29-year-old British man, Jacob Roberts, fell into a well on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Roberts was running away from a dog chasing him when the young man fell into a four-meter-deep well, which he might not leave for six full days because his leg was broken.
Roberts used a little water at the bottom of the well to survive before the fates marketed to him a livestock that was grazing weeds near the well and its owner was looking for it.
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