At 6 this morning work began on the excavation of the horizontal tunnel. The recovery operations of little Ryan, 5 years old, still stuck at the bottom of the well where he fell three days ago, proceed in a climate of mobilization and anxiety. Another night of cold and excavation, the third of this story that recalls that of Alfredino Rampi.
An entire mountain - literally - was excavated tonight, with the arrival of the sixth bulldozer. A 30-meter crater, parallel to the well, leaves room for topographers to study the latest tricks. During the night there were landslides that made people fear the worst. On the Rif chain, in the north of Morocco, the scene of the accident, the recovery works proved to be more difficult than expected, too much rock, too many obstacles.
On the microphones of a local broadcaster, the head of the rescue committee said that Ryan asked for water at 3 am, when a small camera introduced into the well surprised him awake and conscious, after almost 60 hours of ordeal: "Ryan speaks and answers questions ".
Since dawn today, the excavators have been trying to pierce even the rock to finally create the three-meter corridor and reach the child.
Among the technicians there are also those who have now been working uninterrupted for 24 hours in a solidarity competition that is unprecedented in Morocco.
Ambulance and medical staff are in the field, to provide first aid to the little one, once he is free.
Meanwhile, the Net bounces images of queues and bottlenecks on the small roads leading to Tamrout, Ryan's village.
It is a crowd of onlookers, of citizens who have come from every corner of Morocco, hoping to see that child come out of the well.
