Vietnam: 10-year-old boy trapped in hollow pillar on New Year’s Eve dies

He died at the age of 10 boy from Vietnam where it had fallen into a narrow concrete, hollow pillar building on a construction site New Year’s Eve.

Rescuers spent nearly 100 hours trying to release Thai Li Hao Nam from the support pillar at a depth of 35 meters below the Earth’s surface, but without success, the online newspaper VnExpress reported, citing a local government official.

“Authorities determined that the victim had died and they try to recover his body for the funeralsaid the vice president of the southern province of Dong Thap, Doan Tan Bu.

As reported by APE-MPE, Nam with his friends he was looking for scrap metal when he fell into this pillar, just 25 centimeters in diameter, on Saturday morning. The incident occurred at a construction site for a bridge in the southern province of Dong Thap.

Earlier today, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had urged rescuers and local authorities to mobilize all the equipment and forces they need, the government said.

Source: News Beast

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