Afghanistan: Boy, 5, dies after being trapped in deep well for several days

A five-year-old boy trapped for a number of days in a deep, dry properly in southeastern Afghanistan has died, Taliban officers stated Friday.

The kid, named Haidar, "has left us ceaselessly," tweeted Anas Haqqani, a senior adviser to the inside ministry.

"That is one other day of mourning and grief for our nation," he added.

Haidar "is now not with us," Abdullah Azzam, secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar, confirmed on Twitter.

The kid slipped to the underside of the earthen properly in Shokak village in Zabul province, about 400km southwest of the capital Kabul, on Tuesday.

Rescuers reached him on Friday morning. He was nonetheless alive after they obtained to him, however his situation was "not good" and he wanted "native therapy", Ahmadullah Wasiq, a deputy spokesman for the Taliban authorities, had stated earlier.

The accident was harking back to the one in Morocco in early February involving 5-year-old Rayan, who fell to the underside of a dry properly and was discovered lifeless after 5 days of relentless efforts by rescuers.

The tragedy provoked appreciable emotion, amplified by social networks, in Morocco and all through the world.

Haidar's grandfather, Haji Abdul Hadi, 50, advised AFP the boy fell into the opening whereas attempting to "assist" adults drill a brand new properly within the drought-ravaged village.

Based on official sources, the kid slipped into the 25-metre-deep gap earlier than being pulled by a rope to a depth of about 10 metres, the place he grew to become trapped.

Rescuers opened a big slanting trench within the earth with excavators to entry the realm the place he was trapped. However they needed to proceed with warning as they approached the shaft and have been then slowed down by the rocky terrain.