Kandahar – A five-year-old boy trapped for three days down a well in a remote Afghan village has died, several Taliban officials said on Friday.
The child, named Haidar, slipped Tuesday to the bottom of a well being dug in Shokak, a parched village in Zabul province, around 400km (250 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul.
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Rescuers worked non-stop to try to reach the boy, who officials said was still alive Friday morning – before later announcing he had died.
“With great sorrow, young Haidar is separated from us forever,” said Taliban interior ministry senior adviser Anas Haqqani, in a tweet echoed by several of his colleagues.
The operation comes around two weeks after a similar attempt to rescue a boy from a Moroccan well gripped the world, but ended with the child found dead.
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