A ten-year-old Vietnamese boy has died after falling into a narrow, open shaft of a 115-meter concrete pole at a construction site on Latest 12 months’s Eve.
Rescuers spent nearly 100 hours attempting to rescue Ly Hao Nam from a pillar supporting a bridge driven into the bottom, but without success, online newspaper VnExpress reported, quoting a local government official.
“The authorities have determined that the victim is dead and are attempting to get better her body for burial,” said the vice chairman of southern Dong Thap province, Doan Tan Buu.
Nam was heard calling for help shortly after he fell into a hole pillar, which is just 10 inches in diameter, on Saturday at a bridge construction site in the Mekong Delta province where he and friends were scavenging for scrap metal.
Greater than 200 rescuers armed with special equipment tried to melt the bottom and take away the mud to try to drag the pillar out, but to no avail.
Oxygen was pumped into the shaft and water was supplied to the boy, but there was no sign that he had been drinking anything.
When rescuers lowered the camera into the shaft on Monday, they received no response from Nam.
Buu said the 10-year-old suffered multiple injuries and didn’t have enough oxygen, making his rescue “inconceivable”. reported BBC News.
Earlier on Wednesday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on rescuers and native authorities to mobilize all of the equipment and forces needed to free the boy, the federal government said.
With postal wires