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A 10-year-old boy who fell into a 10-inch wide pit on New Year’s Eve while scavenging for scrap metal with friends at a bridge construction site in southern Vietnam is unresponsive to rescuers.
More than 200 rescuers are struggling to rescue the boy who has been stuck in a narrow open concrete mound in Dong Thap province since Saturday.
Ly Hao Nam was heard screaming for help after falling into the pile, but authorities are unsure of his current condition as he has stopped responding to rescuers.
The boy’s situation differs from previous cases as the pillar is too narrow for a rescuer to climb in to reach the boy. A firefighter from Ho Chi Minh City told VnExpress that the circumstances were “very complicated” and “the only solution is to pull up the pillar”.
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According to Doan Tan Buu, vice chairman of the Dong Thap Provincial People’s Committee, there is limited hope that the boy is alive as he was confined in a confined space for four days and is believed to have multiple injuries.
On Monday, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ordered federal rescuers, soldiers and engineering experts to pool their efforts to free the boy by Tuesday.
Meanwhile, local rescuers have drilled and softened the surrounding soil, removed mud around the pile and pumped oxygen into the buttress.
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Dong Thap’s transportation department head Le Hoang Bao has expressed the team’s determination to pull the 35-meter-tall pillar out of the ground by Tuesday. They plan to use special equipment to pull the pile up before cutting it up to free the boy.
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