The five-year-old boy, Rayan, who has been trapped for five days in a well in northern Morocco has been rescued today.
More details are awaited.
Workers with mechanical diggers have been trying round the clock to rescue the child after he fell into a 32-metre (100-foot) deep well in the hills near Chefchaouen.
During the last four days, he was supplied with water and oxygen using a tube.
His distraught parents are joined by hundreds of villagers and others who have gathered to watch the rescue operation.
For three days, search crews used bulldozers to dig a parallel ditch. Then on Friday, they started excavating a horizontal tunnel to reach the trapped boy. Morocco’s MAP news agency said that experts in topographical engineering were called upon for help.
Work was temporarily halted Friday because of fears that the soil surrounding the well could collapse on the boy, but then resumed.
