The incident of the Moroccan child Rayan and similar incidents have been repeated around the world in recent years

Weather of Arabia - The news of the death of the child Rayan aroused the grief of the pioneers of social networking sites, especially from the Arabs, who for days had been closely following the progress of the rescue operation, which lasted more than 4 days, hoping for the survival of the Moroccan child Rayan (5 years), who was stuck In a narrow well at a depth of 32 meters in the north of the country.

 

Despite the strenuous efforts made by the Moroccan authorities to try to rescue , the child was taken out on Saturday evening and he died.

 

Despite the rarity of these events, there have been a number of similar incidents that have been repeated around the world in recent years, and the BBC website has monitored some of these incidents.

 

Ayach from Algeria

In December 2018, in Algeria, a young man in his thirties named Ayach fell into an old well, which is 100 meters deep and does not exceed 35 centimeters in diameter.

 

Ayyash was trapped in that well for four days, the first day of which he spent without anyone noticing that he had fallen until a child heard his screaming.

 

Similar to the operation to rescue the Moroccan child Rayan, the Algerian civil defense workers proceeded to dig around the well until they reached the place where Ayyash was stuck, who could not live in his place for more than four days, while the excavation work continued for nine days until he reached the body.

 

Ayyash's story also received widespread attention on social media platforms.

 

Thai cave team

In July 2018, in Thailand, many around the world were holding their breath as they watched the rescue of 12 children who were trapped in a cave with their coach, as the team was inspecting the cave when floodwaters rained down on it and blocked its exits, locking the team in place for 17 days.

 

And 90 divers participated in the rescue operation, including 40 from Thailand, and the rest from other countries, until all those stuck in the Thai cave were rescued after 17 days of suffering.

 

 

gold miners in chile

On October 13, a massive rescue operation succeeded for Chilean miners who had been stuck underground for 69 days in the San Jose mine that collapsed on them.

 

And the Chilean Minister of Mines, Lawrence Golburne, said seven days after the collapse: that the chances of finding the workers alive are "very slim."

But under pressure from the people who camped in the place in the wake of the collapse, rescuers continued their efforts until a probe on August 22 was able to pick up a message written on a piece of paper bearing the phrase that became famous, "We are fine, all 33 of us in the shelter" underground.

 

The rescue operation was carried out using a metal capsule that was lowered into the mine through a well dug within 33 days, to get the stranded workers out one by one.

 

It takes 15 minutes to ascend the capsule, but with the preparation of each flight, it takes about an hour for each worker to rise to the surface of the earth.

 

The miners, 32 Chileans and one Bolivian, were trapped in the San Jose copper and gold mine in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, after a collapse occurred.

 

British man falls into a well in Indonesia

In June 2020, on the Indonesian island of Bali, a young British man, Jacob Roberts, fell into a well while escaping from a chasing dog.

 

The depth of the well this time was four meters, and Roberts broke his leg when he fell in it, and he could not leave it for six days.

 

The 29-year-old used a little water at the bottom of the well to survive.

Fate led one of the cattle to graze near the well and its owner was looking for it, and here made Roberts scream for help until the farmer heard him and was rescued.

 

The rescuers used a crane to pull him out of the well before he was taken to the hospital.

 

highlands of scotland

In July 2018, a rescue team in the Highlands of Scotland pulled out a nine-year-old boy who had been injured in a cave overlooking a lake during an expedition.

 

The rescue team used a coast guard helicopter in their mission, which was difficult because of the ruggedness of the place and the limited space.

 

36 days of siege

In January 2016, authorities in eastern China's Shangdong Province found only four survivors among 17 miners who had been trapped underground for 36 days.

 

A collapse in the mine had trapped the workers. The chairman of the board of directors of the company that owns the mine committed suicide a few days after the accident.

 

More than 400 people participated in the rescue operation.

 

Rescue in 15 seconds

Also in China, specifically in the northern city of Baotou, and in May 2016, the authorities managed to rescue a child who had fallen into a narrow hole six meters deep.

 

One of the rescue workers dangled his head in the hole while his colleagues held his foot until he brought the child with his hands before these colleagues pulled them and sent the child to hospital for treatment.

 

This rescue operation took only 15 seconds.

 

Bush disappears in his bedroom

And in March 2013 in the US state of Florida, a man in his thirties named Jeffrey Bush disappeared while he was in his bedroom, which was swallowed by a six-meter-deep hole caused by a landslide.

 

And the continued slippage in the place, due to the wideness of the crater, which was about 30 meters in diameter, prevented access to the bush and the task of searching for it was suspended, and it is reported that the regional government recently banned housing in the two houses adjacent to the scene of the accident.