little Rayan did not survive, emotion throughout the country

Hope finally turned to pain for the thousands of people who were come witness the last hours of the rescue operation of little Rayan. Extracted from the well shortly after 9:30 p.m., he was immediately taken away by an ambulance and everyone hoped he was still alive. But the child is dead, said Morocco’s royal cabinet. The king Mohammad VI a called the boy’s family to him present their condolences.

The story of this 5-year-old boy, who fell into a 32-meter-deep well while playing near his home, had moved and worried all of Morocco. Impossible, alas, to recover it by the same access. After five days of waiting in this hole 45 centimeters wide, Rayan n‘did not last, despite the bottles of water and oxygen that the rescuers had managed to give him.