Boy fallen into concrete pipe in Vietnam is pronounced dead Crushing attack on Russian barracks leaves Russia shocked

Days after a 10-year-old boy in Vietnam fell into a 35-meter concrete pipe, authorities pronounced him dead.

Doan Tan Buu, vice premier of South Vietnam’s Dong Thap province, told reporters Wednesday evening (local time) that the boy died amid 100 hours of failed rescue attempts. They now want to restore his body as soon as possible, he added. The concrete column must therefore be removed from the ground in the evening. However, Buu admitted that the emergency services had no experience with this type of rescue work.

Little Nam fell into the narrow pipe in Phu Loi township on Saturday at the site of a construction site for a new bridge. At the construction site, the boy and three neighbors wanted to collect pieces of iron. No one would have imagined that a ten-year-old could be trapped so deep in the tube, it was said after the accident. However, according to the information, Nam was malnourished and weighed less than 20 kilograms.

The army also participated in the rescue work. With special equipment, the rescuers tried for days, among other things, to loosen the earth around the pipe so that it could be pulled up with a crane. According to media reports, the boy initially called for help after his fall. The emergency services had repeatedly pumped oxygen into the depths.

“It’s a sad thing,” Buu told the German news agency on Wednesday. His father burst into tears at the scene of the accident when the boy was pronounced dead. A team of doctors, coroners and local authorities had previously concluded that the boy’s death was due to several factors. In addition to the location of the accident, this also concerned the depth of the pipeline, the duration of the rescue work and any injuries he had sustained. The recovery efforts were still underway Wednesday morning. A camera previously lowered into the pipe had shown no sign of the child’s life. (saw/sda/dpa)