Boy († 10) who fell in a concrete pipe is dead

Report to Vietnamese authorities

Boy († 10) who fell in a concrete pipe is dead

A rescue operation for a boy who fell into a concrete pipe has been going on in Vietnam for days. Now he’s dead.

Days after a 10-year-old boy fell into a 35-metre concrete pipe in Vietnam, authorities have pronounced him dead. The boy died, Doan Tan Buu, deputy prime minister of South Vietnam’s Dong Thap province, told reporters on Wednesday evening (local time). The rescue attempts lasted 100 hours. They now want to recover his body as soon as possible, he added.

Accordingly, a team of doctors, coroners and local authorities had come to the conclusion that the boy had died due to various factors. In addition to the location of the accident, this also included the depth of the pipe, the duration of the rescue work and possible injuries that he had suffered. The tests were still going on Wednesday morning. A camera previously lowered into the pipe had shown no sign of life from the child.