Morocco, shocked, mourns “little Rayan” who was trapped in a well

Morocco cried this Sunday the death of little Rayan, trapped for five days at the bottom of a deep well in a poor region in the north of the Alawite kingdom, a human drama that, through social media, has shocked the entire world.

“This morning there was a terrible silence in the town. They had all prayed that he would make it out alive. Everybody cried.” said a family member of the child.

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“I couldn’t sleep for five days. I have a son the same age as Rayan. I think of him every time I look at my little boy.a neighbor, Mounir Adbib, told AFP.

Rayan’s funeral is scheduled for Monday in Ighrane, where the tragedy occurred, a cousin of the boy and a deputy from Chefchaouen province, Abderrahim Bouazza, told AFP.

As for the autopsy of the body, there is still no official report.

“Tragic epilogue (…) Sadness and shock in Morocco (…) something that has awakened the values ​​of humanity throughout the world”, the local press affirmed this Sunday.

the king himself Morocco officially announced the tragic outcome.

The case of “little Rayan”, He has captured world attention since he fell into a 32-meter-deep well last Tuesday, which led to a complex operation to remove him, without knowing if he was alive.

Shortly before 10:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. GMT) on Saturday, AFP journalists observed Rayan’s parents with disjointed faces when they entered the tunnel opened by rescuers to access the well, from which the child would come out.

They came out soon after and left in an ambulance without saying a word. After a moment of confusion, the crowd that had waited for days dispersed in a gloomy silence, AFP found.

“After the tragic accident that cost the life of the boy Rayan Oram, His Majesty King Mohamed VI called the parents of the deceased, who died after falling into a well”, the Moroccan royal cabinet said in a statement.

The outcome of the operation was anxiously awaited both in the Maghreb kingdom and in the rest of the world, with messages of solidarity and encouragement that flooded social networks.

The reactions came from all corners of the world after the news of the minor’s death.

“I want to tell the family of little Rayan and the Moroccan people that we share their pain,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Facebook.

Pope Francis, for his part, greeted “a whole people who came together to save Rayan”, during the Angelus prayer at the Vatican.

“Hero”

Reaching the corner where the boy had fallen required a deployment of bulldozers and precision work. In the final phase, the operations were carried out manually, to avoid vibrations that could cause a collapse, the authorities of the town of Ighran, nearby, explained to AFP. to the Bab Berred village, in the province of Chefchaouen.

A helicopter with medical material was ready at the scene for an eventual transfer.

In the images obtained by a probe camera, Rayan appeared “lying on his back” in the bend of that narrow well, without it being possible to say if he was alive, one of the heads of the rescue team, Abdelhadi Tamrani, explained on Saturday morning. .

Rescuers sent him oxygen and water through tubes and bottles, without any certainty that the boy had used them.

At dawn, a large rock hindered the tunnel construction work, until it was managed after three hours of effort, with the help of small electrical equipment.

On Sunday, the filling of the well and the emergency tunnel began, according to AFP journalists.

Thousands of people came to show their solidarity and camped there despite the freezing cold of this mountainous area of ​​the Rif, at an altitude of about 700 meters.

Loud applause greeted each appearance of the excavators, such as volunteer Ali Sahraoui, a man in his 50s who dug the first few meters with his hands and became a hero on social media.

Police deployed reinforcements to prevent the crowd from disrupting rescue efforts.

The tragedy began with the disappearance of the child on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. GMT): “The whole family mobilized to look for him until we realized that he had fallen into the well,” said the mother of the child, in tears. little boy.

This accident recalls a tragedy that occurred in Spain in 2019 when a two-year-old boy died after falling into an abandoned well 24 centimeters in diameter and more than 100 meters deep in Andalusia. After a major operation, the remains of the minor were recovered 13 days later.

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Source: Elcomercio

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