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After eight days, a research team dug a 71-meter vertical hole to try to save the missing boy near the city of Malaga, in southern Spain. Julen, 2, is stuck in a well 100 meters deep since the 13th of this month.
The boy disappeared during a walk with his family. The father told the authorities that he had seen the boy fall into the well. The case is followed with keen interest by the media around the world.
Now teams must focus on digging the horizontal tunnel that will take them to where the child is. From that moment, it will be necessary to reorganize the search area and prepare the equipment for the final stage of the search, which could be closed on Wednesday.
In an interview with El Mundo newspaper, rescue engineers and firefighters reported that the last part of the rescue will be a "manual intervention", carried out with picks and pneumatic tools – to prevent the accident. use of large pieces of stone and earth that could injure the child.
Finally, miners will descend into a species. from cage to try to save the boy.
No sign of life has yet been identified from the well. Some people even wondered if the boy was really there. However, the rescue team found the locks of the child's hair between tissues pulled from the depths of the hole.
"This gives us some badurance that the boy is really inside," said a local official, Gomez de Celis.
The boy's father, Joseph, said
According to neighbors, Julen's family experienced another tragedy: another child died at the age of three after heart disease [19659002] The main problem of the rescue operation is the small diameter of the well, only 25 centimeters, which makes access difficult and makes the process dangerous.
The well was apparently discovered, although the businessman who dug it declared to have closed the entrance.
It is thought to be about 80 meters deep. An important part of the job is to hit exactly where the boy is.
The officials say that they work "tirelessly".
It was necessary to build a platform to allow machines to level the ground before digging. 19659002] Specialized mining teams were called from northern Spain. A Swedish group also participated in the operation. They were also called to participate in the rescue of miners from a cave in Chile in 2010. The group's function was to locate the exact location where they were located.
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