A 10-year-old boy who fell into a deep and narrow hole at a construction site on New Year’s Eve in Vietnam has been pronounced dead by authorities.
Rescuers spent nearly 100 hours trying to free Ly Hao Nam from the 35-meter (115-foot) long support pillar driven into the ground, but without success, online newspaper VnExpress cited a local government official as saying.
Rescue operation in progress at the site where a boy fell to his death inside a narrow concrete pillar in Vietnam, on Jan. 4, 2023. (Reuters/Screenshot via NTD)
Cranes working in a rescue operation at the site where a boy fell to his death inside a narrow concrete pillar in Vietnam, on Jan. 4, 2023. (Reuters/Screenshot via NTD)
“The authorities have determined that the victim has died and are trying to recover his body for the funeral,” Doan Tan Buu, deputy chairman of the southern province of Dong Thap, was quoted as saying….