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Moroccan boy dies after four days trapped in well

Telegraph, 06 Feb 2022
A five-year-old boy trapped down a Moroccan well for four days, whose plight garnered worldwide attention, was last night pronounced dead.

Rayan Awram fell into a 100-foot deep well near his home in Ighrane, a small village in the northern province of Chefchaouen, on Tuesday.

Footage from the scene late on Saturday night showed the boy wrapped in a yellow blanket after he had been pulled from a tunnel dug specifically for the rescue. His parents had been escorted to an ambulance before Rayan emerged.

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