Rescuers in Vietnam are desperately trying to free a 10-year-old boy two days after he fell into the narrow open shaft of a concrete pile at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.
Ly Hao Nam was heard crying for help shortly after he fell into the pile on Saturday morning, but rescuers received no response from him yesterday as they lowered a camera down to try to locate his position.
The calamity occurred at a bridge construction site in the Mekong delta province where the boy had been searching for scrap iron.
“I cannot understand how he fell into the hollow concrete pile, which has a diameter of a 25cm span only, and was driven 35m in to the ground,” Le Hoang Bao, director of Dong Thap province’s Department of Transport, told Tuoi Tre News, a local newspaper.
Efforts to lift the pile with cranes and excavators had so far failed and rescuers were unable to determine the boy’s position, media reported. — Reuters
