A five-year-old boy, who had been stuck for three days in a well in a southern Afghanistan village, was declared dead on Feb. 18 by officials. A rescue operation was launched to pull the child, identified as Haidar, out from the well in Shokak village of Zabul province, where he had been trapped since Feb. 15. According to Zabul police spokesman Zabiullah Jawhar, the boy was still breathing when they pulled him out of the well but he was eventually declared dead. “In the first minutes after the rescue operation was completed, he was breathing, and the medical team gave him oxygen,” Zabiullah told reporters. “When the medical team tried to carry him to the helicopter, he lost his life.” Haidar’s grandfather, Haji Abdul Hadi, told AFP that his grandson fell into the well while attempting to help people dig a new borehole in the parched village. Haidar reportedly slipped …