Rescuers battle to save five-year-old Afghan boy Haidar who remains wedged in a well in southern Zabul province for the last two days SaveHaidar
Video shared earlier on social media –– including by Taliban officials –– showed the boy wedged in the well but able to move his arms and upper body.
Rescuers have been desperately scrambling to reach a five-year-old boy trapped for two days down a well in a remote southern Afghan village. Officials from the Taliban's newly installed government were overseeing rescue operations on Thursday in Shokak village, Zabul province, around 120 kilometres northeast of Kandahar, watched by hundreds of curious villagers.
Video shared earlier on social media –– including by Taliban officials –– showed the boy, named Haidar, wedged in the well but able to move his arms and upper body."Talk with me and don't cry, we are working to get you out."The video was obtained by rescuers lowering light and a camera down the narrow well by rope.
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