A ten-year-old Vietnamese boy who fell into the slim open shaft of a concrete pile at a building website on New Year’s Eve has been confirmed lifeless, state media stated Wednesday.
Rescuers spent practically 100 hours making an attempt to free Ly Hao Nam from the 35-meter lengthy help pillar pushed into the bottom, however with out success, on-line newspaper VnExpress cited an area authorities official as saying.
“The authorities have determined that the victim has died and are trying to recover his body for the funeral,” deputy chairman of the southern province of Dong Thap, Doan Tan Buu, was quoted as saying.
Nam was heard crying for assist shortly after he fell into the hole concrete pile, which has a diameter of 25 cm, on Saturday at a bridge building website within the Mekong delta province the place he had been looking out with mates for scrap iron.
Earlier on Wednesday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had urged the rescuers and native authorities to mobilize all tools and forces wanted, the federal government stated.