Race on to save trapped boy


Hoping for a miracle: Rescuers working at the site where the boy is thought to be trapped in Dong Thap province. — AFP

Local authorities are still racing against time to rescue a 10-year-old boy trapped in a 35m-deep concrete pipe pit in the southern province of Dong Thap since Saturday afternoon.

Thai Ly Hao Nam and three other children went to the Roc Sen bridge construction site to collect scrap metal on Saturday, but fell into the concrete pillar with an opening of just 25cm in diameter. Local authorities yesterday said the prognosis of the boy’s health was poor.

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