Details of the tragedy of the Moroccan child `Ryan` who fell into a deep well, and attempts are still underway to save him

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/02/03

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - The Moroccan authorities are still making every effort to retrieve the child Rayan (5 years), who fell into a deep well in northern Morocco, where dozens of workers in rescue teams are participating to save the child.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Update (Saturday, February 2):</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1... official statement confirms the death of the child Rayan.. The Moroccan king offers his condolences to Rayan&#39;s parents on his death</a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The story began when the child Rayan fell into a deep well 32 meters deep, in the village of Agran in the Chefchaouen province, in northern Morocco.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Moroccan authorities used advanced tools to search for the child, such as a camera that was inserted into the well, and what it observed appears on a nearby screen.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The difficulty of the rescue operation lies in the narrowness of the well, as the videos show, as a civil defense member barely got into it, relying on a rope tied with a pulley.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Rescue operations did not stop at the inside of the well. After previous attempts by volunteers to retrieve the child from the well due to his narrowness, the authorities brought in large bulldozers that began digging in the ocean, in order to reach and rescue the child through a horizontal search, not a vertical search. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/uploads-2020/273363305_5336145689746135_9096869065060935371_n.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 600px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And Moroccan media had said earlier that the child Rayan fell into the well, in the absence of his parents, on Wednesday morning.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> She said that the child Rayan was still alive, stuck at a depth of 35 meters in the well, noting that he had suffered minor injuries to the head.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>And this is a live broadcast that broadcasts the rescue operation that has been underway since Wednesday:</strong> </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fEWSP1YS1Jc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Read also:</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AB%D8%A9-... incident of the Moroccan child Rayan and similar incidents have been repeated around the world in recent years</strong></a></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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