The five-year-old boy is believed to have fallen into the well in a remote village while helping adults dig a borehole
Rescuers were desperately scrambling to reach a five-year-old boy trapped for two days down a well in a remote southern Afghan village.
“Are you OK my son?” his father can be heard saying. “Talk with me and don’t cry, we are working to get you out.”The video was obtained by rescuers lowering a light and a camera down the narrow well by rope.
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