Rescuers in Vietnam have been desperately making an attempt to free a 10-year boy on Monday two days after he fell into the slender open shaft of a concrete pile at a development web site on New Year’s Eve.
Ly Hao Nam was heard crying for assist shortly after he fell into the pile on Saturday morning, however rescuers acquired no response from him on Monday as they lowered a digital camera right down to attempt to find his place within the 35-meter (115-feet) lengthy assist pillar.
The calamity occurred at a bridge development web site within the Mekong Delta area the place the boy had been looking with pals for scrap iron.
“I cannot understand how he fell into the hollow concrete pile, which has a diameter of a (25-centimeter/10-inch) span only, and was driven 35 meters into the ground,” Le Hoang Bao, director of Dong Thap province’s Department of Transport, informed Tuoi Tre News, an area newspaper.
Efforts to carry the pile with cranes and excavators had thus far failed and rescuers have been unable to find out the boy’s place, media reported.
Rescuers have pumped oxygen into the pile and have softened the soil round it however the pile has tilted barely, complicating extraction efforts.