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Rayan: Moroccan boy taken out of well after days trapped inside Rayan: Moroccan boy trapped in well for four days has died
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A five-year-old boy has been taken out of a deep well in Morocco after being trapped there for four days. A five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him.
It is not clear whether the boy, who has been named as Rayan, survived his ordeal. A royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well.
Efforts to rescue him have gripped the country, with hundreds of people gathered at the well and thousands more following online. The bid to free him had gripped the country, with hundreds of people gathered at the well and thousands more following online.
The boy plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening. The rescue has been hampered by fears of a landslide. The boy plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening. The rescue had been hampered by fears of a landslide.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Footage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, but there had been no update on his condition since then.
You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. The mixture of rocky and sandy soils meant rescuers deemed opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.
Instead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well. Rescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy.
On Moroccan social media, the hashtag #SaveRayan has been trending across the country and around the world.