Toddler Trapped Down a 360 Feet Hole

Rita Detweiler, Senior

According to NBC News, Yulen, a two-year-old boy, had fallen down an old Spanish well that is 360 feet deep and only about 10 inches wide. The accident happened in Totalán, a town in the southern province of Málaga. The well was dug about a month before the toddler had fallen in the hole. A robotic camera only made it 229 ft below the surface before came across candies the boy was carrying.

The camera could not go further due to the width of the passage so rescue workers are hoping to make the hole bigger to send the camera deeper. Emergency workers are frantically digging a tunnel to intersect the well with a specialist mine rescue team. The progress is difficult with the huge risk of internal collapsing of the well. Yulen’s parents, Vicky and Jose Garcia, are waiting above ground while being assisted by a group of trauma experts and psychologists.