Moroccan boy trapped in well dies before rescue

Rescue workers carry 5-year-old child, Rayan Awram, who had been trapped for five days in a well, to an ambulance, during a rescue operation near Chefchaouen, northern Morocco on February 5, 2022. [Reuters, Thami Nouas]

A small boy trapped in a well in northern Moroccan for five days died before rescuers were able to reach him late on Saturday and retrieve his body, two government officials said.

Footage posted on social media showed the scene after his body was recovered, with hundreds of distraught rescue workers and onlookers gathered at the site chanting to god and shining the flashlights of their phones into the air.