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Efforts continue in Vietnam to rescue a 10-year-old boy who fell into a concrete pile at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.
The boy, identified as Ly Hao Nam, had reportedly been searching for scrap metal with his friends when he fell down a 35-meter (115-ft.) pillar shaft in Vietnam’s Dong Thap province, where work on a bridge was underway.
“I cannot understand how he fell into the hollow concrete pile,” which has a diameter of less than 10 inches and was driven 115 feet into the ground, Dong Thap Department of Transport Director Le Hoang Bao told Vietnam newspaper Tuoi Tre News, per NBC News.
Hundreds of rescuers worked around the clock to try to help the boy escape, including pumping oxygen down the shaft to help him breathe and softening the soil around the concrete pile. Attempts to lift the concrete pile with cranes and excavators so far have been unsuccessful, according to the BBC.
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Their latest move on Monday was to attempt to locate his position by lowering a camera down the pillar. However, rescuers said they received no response…
