Japanese experts help excavate concrete pillar with boy inside

Rescuers and experts at the site where 10-year-old Thai Ly Hao Nam fell into a concrete pillar in Dong Thap Province, January 5, 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Nam

A group of Japanese experts has arrived in southern Dong Thap Province to help pull up a 35-m-deep pillar with the body of a dead boy inside.

The experts have developed a plan to extricate the hollow pillar, which has a diameter of 25cm and is buried underground at the construction site of a bridge.

However, due to a lack of machinery, the experts have yet to start work, said Doan Tan Buu, Dong Thap’s deputy chairman.

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