voices clamour. as huge crowds watched on, initially relief that rayan had been found, carried by his rescuers to a waiting ambulance, but that quickly turned to despair and grief. despite painstaking efforts to save him, the little boy didn t survive. rayan s parents had been hoping and praying for good news. instead, they received a call of condolence from king mohammed the boy s family now trying to come to terms with their loss. translation: i can t describe how it feels | that my cousin is gone. what can i say? now my heart is aching for him too much. my nephew, my heart aches for him. may god be with him, just like how god stood with us. rayan had fallen down the well on tuesday evening while his father was trying to fix it. this image of him captured on thursday by a camera lower down, showing him injured but conscious. it prompted a huge and complex rescue operation around the clock. the five year old was trapped more than 30
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the operation to rescue a five year old boy trapped in a well in morocco since tuesday has ended in tragedy. emergency workers were able to reach the boy, rayan awram, earlier this evening but the moroccan authorities confirmed that he had died. king mohammed sent condolences to his parents. rayan awram, aged five, fell into the well on tuesday, triggering a huge rescue effort that engrossed the country. moroccan journalist hassan alawii has been following the story he gave us his reaction to tonight s news. we were hoping to have some good news, even if it doesn t make sense for this story to end in a good manner because if you spent five days in the bottom of a well,
Millions of people were this month captivated by the live-broadcasted efforts to rescue five-year-old Moroccan child Rayan Awram after he fell into a 32-meter well. This heart-rending incident has affected us deeply, for no one wanted to witness a child go through such an adverse experience.
The five-year-old boy, called Haidar, was wedged 33ft down the well (pictured) and rescuers were seen digging down in an attempt to reach him in southern Afghanistan .