HANOI, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Rescuers in Vietnam were trying to free a 10-year-old boy on Monday. Two days after he fell into a narrow opening in a concrete pile at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.
After he fell into the pile on Saturday morning. But rescuers heard no response from him on Monday. As they lowered a camera to try to locate him on the 35m-long support pillar.
HANOI, Vietnam – Rescuers in Vietnam were trying to free a 10-year-old boy on Monday. Two days after he fell into a narrow open pit on a concrete pile at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.
Lee Hao Nam was heard crying for help shortly. After he fell into the pile on Saturday morning. But rescuers heard no response from him on Monday. As they lowered a camera down the 115-foot support pillar to try to locate him.
The disaster occurred at a bridge construction site in Mekong Delta province. Where the boy was looking for scrap iron with friends.
“I don’t understand how he fell into the hollow concrete pile.” Which was less than 10 inches in diameter and driven 115 feet into the ground. Le Hoang Bao Tuoi, director of Dong. Thap province’s transportation department, told Trey News. A local newspaper.
Efforts to lift the pile with cranes and excavators have so far failed. And rescuers have not been able to locate the boy, media reported.
Rescuers pumped oxygen into the pile and softened the ground around it. But the pile was tilted, complicating extraction efforts.
