One-third of concrete pillar with dead boy inside excavated from construction site

Steel sheet piles are placed around the concrete pillar where a boy was trapped inside, Dong Thap Province, January 15, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Khanh

Seventeen days after a 10-year-old boy fell into a 35-meter-deep concrete pillar in southern Vietnam, where he was trapped and died, rescue workers have managed to pull the pillar up by just 12m.

Rescuers are pulling the concrete pillar up section by section.

Nam and three other children who are his neighbors went to the bridge construction site in Dong Thap Province on December 31 to gather pieces of iron for the purpose of selling them to scrap vendors to earn some money.

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