Five-year-old Boy trapped three days in bore well dies after rescue

A five-year-old Afghan boy trapped for three days in bore well dies moments after being pulled out alive, several Taliban officials said Friday. The child, named Haidar, slipped Tuesday to the bottom of a well being dug in Shokak, a parched village in Zabul province, around 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul.

“With great sorrow, young Haidar is separated from us forever,” said Taliban interior ministry senior adviser Anas Haqqani, in a tweet echoed by several of his colleagues. “In the first minutes after the rescue operation was completed he was breathing, and the medical team gave him oxygen,” he said. “When the medical team tried to carry him to the helicopter, he lost his life.” The operation comes around two weeks after a similar attempt to rescue a boy from a Moroccan well gripped the world but ended with the child found dead.