Boy, 5, is pulled from 100ft well by rescuers after four days and rushed to hospital

A five-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital by ambulance after being pulled free from a well after an arduous four-day rescue mission.

Rayan Awram fell more than 30 metres through the well’s opening on Tuesday.

The world watched on anxiously as rescuers mounted a desperate mission to bring the little boy to safety in Chefchaouen, northern Morocco.

His condition is currently unknown.

A large convoy of emergency workers and volunteers was seen carrying the little boy to an ambulance after he was finally freed from the bottom of the well.

Hundreds joined efforts to save Rayan as news of his plight spread, and medics were on hand as teams got closer to him.

Workers with mechanical diggers carried out the delicate and dangerous operation, but were constantly delayed by rocks and imperilled by the threat of landslide.

Many others were following the saga on television in households and cafes across the country.

“People who love us are sparing no effort to save my child,” said the child’s father in a tired, barely audible voice, as he
stood watching rescue efforts on Friday night, wearing a traditional hooded woollen robe against the cold.

“We pray this will be the day of his rescue,” he said.

Rayan is believed to have been playing close to the well when he vanished.

His mother told Moroccan media earlier this week: “The whole family went out to look for him then we realised that he’d fallen down the well.”