Spain: they found Julen dead, the little boy fell into a pit

The rescuers found the body of Julen Roselló,
the child who, twelve days ago, fell into a well in the town of Totalán in Malaga. It was after having searched today the whole gallery
horizontal by which they reached even the smallest that was trapped at more than 70 meters deep.

After more than 24 hours of
uninterrupted excavation, the miners advanced the little more than 3 meters that they lacked.

However, the last few centimeters were very difficult, as the experts discovered quartzite, one of the hardest minerals in the world, which forced them to make the fourth consecutive minivoladura that delays the operation for the umpteenth time.

Thus, once the rescue teams reached the point of the well where Julen was searched and the lifeless body of the child was located, the judicial commission was activated.

The rescue, which operates since the first day of an operation of more than 300 soldiers who work in teams, runs since Jan. 13 that was reported at the fall of a child by a 25-centimeter hole diameter and 110 meters deep in the area known as Dolmen Cerro de la Corona of this city of Malaga.

The boy, who was with relatives on a farm, fell into a prospecting hole to look for small but deep water. Since then, an agent has been mobilized to rescue him, composed of soldiers of different corps working day and night without rest and facing the enormous technical difficulties encountered, in particular because of the hardness of the ground.

So, these days, there have been members of the Civil Guard of different units, such as the mountain team, the units of the city of Vélez-Málaga, Seprona, Subacuáticas Activities, Tedax; as well as administrations such as the central government, the Junta de Andalucía, the Diputación de Málaga and the town halls of Totalán and Málaga, as well as dependent entities such as Andalucía 112, the provincial firefighters and the capital.

They also took part in professional lifeguards from different sectors, such as the College of Engineers and Roads of Malaga, Minas, as well as the companies Expoa, Actua, Civiliza, Cemosa, Rodio, Narval Engineering, OHL and the Swedish company SPT (Stockholm ). Precision Tools), in charge of the geolocalisation of the 33 Chilean miners rescued in 2010. Pepe Nuñez, Acosol, Restitubo, SGO Obras and the Rincón de la Victoria mountaineering club collaborated on this work, among others.

In addition, the Hunosa Mining Rescue Brigade, originally from Asturias, traveled to the city of Malaga to participate in the rescue, a crucial work to obtain the child and not without complications that finally ended at the dawn saturday. .

Works without stopping

Thus, after one exercise, the vertical gallery was parallel to the well where Julen was, not without difficulties which slowed the work in the rock and which lasted 55 hours; We proceeded to the jacket. However, after reaching the level of 42 meters deep, a deviation caused a change of plan. They had to remove the tubes again, drill the hole again and resume the piping work.

After that, on Thursday at 17:33 (local time), these specialists, considered as an elite corps, were introduced in the capsule designed by the technical director of the Provincial Fire Department of Malaga, Julian Moreno, and executed by two blacksmiths from Malaga. Run the job with a shovel and pneumatic hammer until the minor.

In turn, between 40 minutes and one hour, they dug the four-meter horizontal gallery until they reached the well into which the baby had fallen. In their work, they encountered difficulties, again because of the extreme hardness of the terrain. Even microvoladuras controlled were necessary, which slowed a little more the expected times.

Since the Civil Guard insisted during all these days to work with the idea that Julen was alive. On Wednesday, January 16th, it was also known that the same day of the fall in the well, biological remains had been extracted and that after badysis and comparison of the DNA of the parents and the vial of the child, these had indicated that they came from the child.

An advisory committee formed by the Malaga College of Engineers has also been set up with various technicians and companies to badist at any time during the complex work of projecting and executing the various measures. Ángel García Vidal, delegate of said college in Malaga, was the spokesperson and explained the steps taken to locate the child.

The sub-delegate of the government, María Gámez, recalled in various appearances the work "without rest" and the complexity of the representations, in addition to giving all their support and affection to the family Julen; as well as the government delegate in Andalusia, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis or the new president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, who visited the site on Saturday, January 19, also highlighting the tireless work done for the child of the well and the magnitude of the work undertaken.

Meanwhile, the parents of the child, José and Victoria, have always remained on the spot, first in a tent in the area and, later, for security reasons and given the scale of the work, in a house given by a neighbor of the locality Last Thursday, they participated in a vigil organized by Juan José Cortés, the father of the murdered daughter Mariluz in Huelva in 2008, to support the troops and give more strength to the parents.

The father of the child, José Roselló, thanked the work done. He confided, in statements made to the media in the early days of his existence, that his son was still alive, admitting that he and his wife "died" after so many days of waiting, but with the exception of his father. hoping to have an angel in paradise, referring to a three year old son who died a little over a year ago.

After almost 13 days of intense and incessant work, which was used civil engineering machinery, which is what was executed to reach the little Julen, have not stopped the signs of solidarity with the family of the child and all the participants in these difficult rescue tasks, who also received the warmth of the people of Totalán who brought food, drinks and other supplies for the entire operation.

With information from Telam and DPA agencies