100 Hours Of Evacuation And Bad News: A Vietnamese Boy Who Broke Into A Hole Within 35 Meters Is Confirmed To Have Died

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The news came too. Unfortunately, it is not news that Vietnamese citizens have been waiting for.

A 10-year-old boy who fell into a narrow open hole from a concrete pile at a construction site on New Year's Eve, was confirmed dead, as quoted by Channel News Asia, Wednesday, January 4.

The rescue team spent nearly 100 hours trying to free Ly Hao Nam from a 35-meter-deep hole. But failed.

"The authorities have determined that the victim has died," said the deputy chairman of the southern province Dong Thap, Doan Tan Buu.

Now the rescue team's new task is to evacuate Ly Hao Nam's body from the hole.

Nam was heard crying for help shortly after he fell into a pile of perforated concrete, which has a diameter of 25cm. At that time he and his friends were looking for scrap metal.

Earlier on Wednesday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh urged rescuers and local authorities to mobilize all necessary equipment and troops, the government said.