By Online Desk
Rescue workers have been reportedly working non-stop for three days now in a bid to save a five-year-old boy who fell into an over 100 ft well in Morocco.
The boy, identified as Rayan, accidentally fell in the well around 2 pm on Tuesday in a village near the town of Bab Berred, in the northern Moroccan province of Chefchaouen.
On Saturday, there were signs of hope as rescue workers neared the boy at the bottom of the narrow and hard-to-reach dry well.
As the rescue operations reached a decisive phase on Saturday morning, Abdelhadi Thamrani, a member of the rescue operation monitoring committee, was quoted by Le360 as expressing his “great hope that Rayan will be in good health.” He did not say much about the current state of health in which the little boy is.
The report added that an equipped ambulance, with a medical team including a resuscitator, as well as a medical helicopter from the Royal Gendarmerie are currently on site “to save little Rayan at the appropriate time.”
Drilling rigs have been used to dig a ditch parallel to the well in which the boy is located to reach him.
“In a moment of inattention, the boy fell into the well I was repairing, I couldn’t sleep at night,” the boy’s father was quoted as saying by africanews.com.
Meanwhile, the National Press Council called on Friday for respect for journalistic ethics during media coverage of the rescue operation. The council reportedly referred to “numerous violations of the Charter of Journalism Ethics, committed by electronic journals that have made a fuss of the humanitarian principles concerned in the said Charter.”
The Council reviewed some of the violations, such as filming the child at the bottom of the well, his face stained with blood, in a difficult human situation which hurts his family’s feelings, violating the principle of the right to the image etc.
A Morocco World News report said that the story of the boy which started ass a local news story has since dominated news reporting across the world. The dramatic scenes surrounding the fate of the boy have gripped news coverage in the US and elsewhere.
