HANOI — 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 website 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 obtained no response from him on Monday as they lowered a digicam right down to attempt to find his place within the 35-meter lengthy assist pillar.
Screenshot from Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV obtained by Reuters
The calamity occurred at a bridge development website within the Mekong delta province 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-cm] span only, and was driven 35 meters in to the ground,” Le Hoang Bao, director of Dong Thap province’s Department of Transport, advised Tuoi Tre News, an area newspaper.
Efforts to carry the pile with cranes and excavators had to date 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. — Reuters
