Rescue teams continue work on Monday to recover the corpse of the 10-year-old boy which fell on December 31 in a 35-meter-deep hollow concrete pile in southern Vietnam.
Nine days after the little Thai Ly Hao Nam fell into the narrow hole 25 centimeters in diameter and after being pronounced dead last Wednesdaythe Vietnamese experts, with the help of a Japanese team, are still looking for a way to extract the pile in complicated terrain due to the proximity of the river and without the necessary machinery to speed up the operation.
According to the newspaper ‘Than Nien’ (Youth), the latest plan involves the introduction of a steel cylinder around the pile at a depth of 24 meters, remove the surrounding earth and hook the pile to facilitate its extraction with a hydraulic machinery used to move especially heavy loads.
Le Vietnam tente de sauver un enfant tombé dans un trou de 35 mètres de profondeur
“Le petit Thai Ly Hao Nam est tombé dans un trou il ya cinq jours, sur un chantier où il cherchait de la ferraille. Depuis deux jours, le garçonnet a cessé d’interagir.”
04/01/2023 pic.twitter.com/pPC6p2Bph5— + 243 NAME OF D’OR ! (@Thesaron3) January 4, 2023
Authorities in #Vietnam They are racing against the clock to rescue a 10-year-old boy, who has been trapped in a 35-meter concrete pillar hole for four days. Rescue teams are equipped with excavators, cranes, augers and oxygen, to try and reach the boy as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/DtRIOoXZLq
— Vietnam News (@VietnamNewsVNS) January 3, 2023
Despite the time that has elapsed since the accident, authorities are also unsure where the boy, who weighed just 20 kilos, got trapped inside the pile.
suddenly disappeared
The security cameras of the construction company captured the moment in which the boy disappears suddenly when falling down the hole while walking through an irregular terrain of the works of a bridge where he had gone with three neighbors to collect metal.
After the accident, witnesses declared that they heard him call for help for 10 minutes after the event.
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Since the accident occurred, some 350 rescuers, including police officers and firefighters, have gone to the scene to rescue the minor.
The first days, given the uncertainty of his condition, the rescuers were pumping oxygen into the hole so that the minor could continue breathing, until forensic experts pronounced him dead after four days.