Solution, technique, digging a horizontal tunnel, clearing the earth at the side of the tunnel, using bulldozers and front end loaders. but the final two metres are proving to be the most difficult because of that risk of landslides. moroccan journalist has been following the story. morrocan journalist hassan alaoui is following the story from the capital rabat. he gave us an update from officials at the site of the rescue operation. a senior member of the rescue team came to the media there and said there were hundreds ofjournalists working for media and abroad, and he told them everything you hear is just fake news. what i can assure you about is rayan has not been reached yet. we still have to dig some 80 cm to reach him, so any news about him being seriously injured or having spinal problems or anything like that is absolutely fake news.
35m below ground. mechanical diggers have been working round the clock to try to reach him. as you can see, the scale of that effort to try and reach him. a race against time. he has been down there forfive days. we against time. he has been down there for five days. we understand they re entering the final stages of their operation. they are about a metre away from reaching him. there have been other complications, fears of a possible landslide, have made the complicated task even more complicated. but as we can see, this huge effort to rescue the young boy, rayan. he fell 35 metres. we will return to that and keep across the detail of that. let me just explain a bit about the complications. but the narrowness of the well has
Their towns. unfolding drama in the heels of theirtowns. it unfolding drama in the heels of their towns. it seems the rescue teams could not get to him in time. in the prayers of the nation went unanswered. the country hoping for a child s salvation has been left bereft and rayan s parents can only mourn their son. moroccan journalist hassan alawii has been following the story he gave us his reaction to the 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, and you are only a five year old boy, it is very unlikely that you can survive this terrible experience.
Too narrow for rescuers to reach him. instead, they gouged out a new trench by the side, then tunnelled towards him, all the time, having to contend with the risk of landslides. it was a race against time, but time ultimately ran out. the rescue attempt was followed not just by the crowds at the scene, but by people watching online around the world. for rayan s family, the worst news but they will find some comfort in the huge efforts made by those who had never met rayan to try to save him. simon jones, bbc news. as queen elizabeth celebrates 70 years on the throne she says she wants the duchess of cornwall, to be known as queen consort when prince charles becomes king. india begins two days of mourning as one of the country s most famous singers lata mangeshkar dies aged 92. british prime minister boris johnson has announced new appointments to his backroom staff following a wave of resignations over lockdown
King mohammed the sixth, he called the father and mother of rayan and presented his condolences to him cash to them live on television. this is something that never ever happened in the history of morocco, that the king himself expresses his condolences to family live on television. after that, isawjust condolences to family live on television. after that, i sawjust a short bit of the news at nine o clock here, and there was an official statement from the palace itself. and it confirmed the bad news, unfortunately, and it said that the king is very sad to know about the outcome of this experience for rayan but this is god s well, and we can t do anything about it. god s well.