Rescuers in Vietnam were desperately trying to free a 10-year-old boy Monday, two days after he fell into a narrow open shaft of concrete piles at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.
Li Hao Nam was heard screaming for help shortly after he fell into the mountain on Saturday morning, although rescuers lowered cameras on Monday to try and locate him at 35 meters (115 feet). , there was no response from him. long struts.
The incident occurred at a bridge construction site in the Mekong Delta region where the boy and his friends were looking for scrap iron.
“We cannot understand how he fell into a hollow concrete pile with a span of only 25 centimeters/10 inches in diameter and was driven 35 meters into the ground,” the Ministry of Transport told Tuoi Tre News, a local newspaper. Told.
Attempts to lift the mountain using cranes and excavators had so far failed, and rescuers were unable to pinpoint the boy’s location, according to the media.
Rescuers pumped oxygen into the stakes to soften the surrounding soil, but the stakes were tilted slightly, making retrieval difficult.
