Rescue services were ready and ready on Saturday afternoon to pull little Rayan out of the 32-meter hole where he fell on Tuesday at around 2pm.
Hundreds of onlookers have come from all over the country to witness the operation.
But Saturday night has begun to fall on the village of Egrán.
And it was very difficult to have reliable news about his condition.
The Moroccan technicians have finished the last phase of horizontal excavation to reach the little one.
Teams of lifeguards and toilets have entered the tunnel.
Outside the well, an equipped ambulance and a helicopter from the Royal Gendarmerie await to transfer the child if necessary.
In the area there is a large security device and several technicians, and members of the Civil Protection, Civil Engineering, Topography experts, as well as members of the Royal Gendarmerie and the Auxiliary Forces, who have formed a security barrier to prevent hundreds of assembled citizens approach the rescue site.
The whole country lives this Saturday pending what happens in this region located five and a half hours by car from the capital.
Suddenly, at 5:18 p.m., cries of “Allah is great, Allah is great” began to be heard.
Applause had been heard before.
It seemed that the lifeguards were going to remove the child at any moment.
The auxiliary forces, with their yellow vests from the Royal Gendarmerie, had cleared the way out of the well since noon.
The applause and cheers began to get louder after half past five.
But there was still no certain news about the child's condition.
His father, Khalid, and his mother were at the foot of the well, next to an ambulance.
Other relatives such as Munir Ajorra, 38, were waiting at Rayan's house.
"We haven't slept for four days, since we found out that he had fallen."
Munir said that Khalid, Rayan's father, was trying to get water from that well.
“The well was dry for 10 years.
And this year there is a great drought.
Khalid used to bring the water with a hose from his father's house, which is a little higher up”, Munir Ajorra recounted.
The police do not allow access to Egrán with a vehicle from the nearest town of Tamorot, 18 kilometers away.
But people have found dirt roads to put the car or they went directly on foot.
Mohamed, a 35-year-old resident of Chaouen, had spent Friday night without sleeping in Tamorot.
Others came from Fez, Rabat... Some climbed trees and most surrounded the security perimeter that the gendarmerie had arranged around the well.
Some groups of young people, at nightfall, have begun to light bonfires.
Others consider walking back to Tamorot, the closest town, 18 kilometers away.
And many others are willing to spend the night awake, as they have already spent the morning from Friday to Saturday.
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