A five year old boy was entrapped for three days down in a remote Afghan village and died after the rescue team tried their best to pull him out on February 18 Monday.
On Tuesday, the child, named was ‘Haidar’, mistakenly slipped and fell to the bottom of a well being dug in Shokak, a parched village in Zabul province, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul.
According to the Taliban interior ministry senior adviser ‘Anas Haqqani’ Tweeted, “With great sorrow, young Haider is separated from us forever”, and the tweet was echoed by several of his colleagues.
Zabul police spokesperson stated that this is another day of mourning and grief for our country that Haider was sticking to life when rescuers reached him.
He further stated that when the rescue team completed their operation and reached him in the first minutes, he was breathing, and the medical team gave him oxygen.
But, “when the medical team tried to carry him to the helicopter, he lost his life.”
The operation comes around two weeks after the same incident happened in Morocco, North Africa, where they rescued a boy from a Moroccan well – but ended with the child found dead.
As per the Haider grandfather, 50 years old, ‘Haji Abdul Hadi’ the boy fell the well when trying to “help” adults dig a borehole in the drought-ravaged village.
According to the rescue team officials, he fell to the bottom of the narrow 25 metres (80 feet) shaft, then was pulled by rope to within about 10 metres of the surface before becoming stuck.
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Senior officials of the Taliban’s newly installed government oversaw the rescue operations in Shokak, which was also seen by hundreds of villagers, and many related to the child.
As per the tweet of a Taliban official, our prayers were not enough, but it brought everyone together, and we showed to everyone that all Afghan lives are precious.”