00:00good evening and welcome to a new episode of your show what's happening to us
00:06the day is saturday september 5 2026 and the 23rd of ravi el awal
00:18the algerian boy is still trapped in the depths of the well
00:25so to remind you the algerian boy ayub fell into an abandoned artesian well
00:32at a depth of 80 meters in the algerian province of el bayad specifically in the municipality of
00:41el gasul now ayub has been trapped for more than 30 hours now
00:50and some are saying that he has been inside this well for more than 35 hours as we now know
00:59the risks surrounding ayub are very high especially since he is 10 years old
01:06so what are the risks facing this boy after spending so many hours inside the well
01:15of course according to his father he went out to play and the mouth of the well
01:21was covered with a wooden board and apparently this wooden board was not secure so he fell
01:28as he walked over the well on the wooden board and he fell to the bottom of the well first
01:34there are
01:35several risks that must be taken into account and god forbid it's possible that i you
01:42could pass away from hunger i mean you're talking about a boy who is 10 years old roughly entering his
01:51third day or nearing the end of the third day without food and on top of hunger even thirst because
02:00they're saying the well is already almost dry meaning there might not be any water in it the well is
02:06nearly dry it basically has no water hunger thirst exhaustion fear and it might even god forbid
02:17face humiliation or bites from reptiles snakes scorpions insects and so on and that's if we leave fear aside
02:28i mean a child alone even a grown adult if you were left alone 80 meters underground surrounded by pitch
02:39darkness
02:42there are people who even grown adults can't handle the place like this or can't stand being in the dark
02:51i mean some people get panicked just going for a two-minute ct scan because they enter a dark
02:57confined space so imagine this a boy barely 10 years old fell into an 80 meter deep well beneath the
03:08surface
03:08of the earth an artesian well that from what they say is dry or nearly dry well yes also
03:17not just here the problem is that he could pass away god forbid or even from difficulty breathing and
03:24underneath he might have god forbid god forbid pass away which is soil collapse meaning there are
03:34excavation operations happening above it is possible even if unlikely and algerian civil protection personnel
03:42have experience in this matter but a small mistake is possible meaning that at the bottom of the well
03:49new cave winds in the soil could occur so it could unfortunately cause harm to the child
03:57ayub ayub is an algerian child as we mentioned his story reminded us of what happened to the moroccan child
04:04ryan all right where are we now right now i mean today we are roughly it's saturday morning today is
04:15saturday
04:16september 5th september 5th as we said september 5th up to this very moment and according to official
04:23statements the guys may god give them strength at the algerian civil protection
04:30have finished digging the parallel vertical shaft
04:36i mean i already explained yesterday but i don't know if people
04:42were paying attention let me explain child ayub is right here so what are they going to do
04:48especially since the diameter of the well is 40 centimeters meaning it's difficult for them to go in no
04:54one can enter through the main well it's difficult especially since the well isn't straight it's winding
05:00too what they did was bring equipment and pinpoint ayub's location the ayub doesn't necessarily have to be at a
05:07depth of about 80 meters they pinpointed him at a depth of maybe 60 70 or 50 meters what do
05:14they do
05:14they dig they go across horizontally like this and dig another parallel vertical shaft
05:25they bring specific equipment and dig this parallel vertical shaft and that's what happened yesterday
05:32which we showed in video clip well they finished i mean according to the latest information thank god
05:39the heroes of the civil protection have finished digging this parallel vertical shaft so they reached
05:46here and ayub is here and the guys are here so what are they going to do now can they
05:51continue digging with
05:52machinery unfortunately at this particular stage machinery is no longer useful because first of all it's
05:59difficult machines can't reach it i mean how could machines get down there and secondly the digging
06:06with machinery at this point is very dangerous and causes the soil to collapse so what do they do here
06:11the guys go down taking turns civil defense men start digging manually one digs gets tired comes up and
06:18the next one goes down because i imagine it's hard for two to go down together god willing i'll make
06:23sure
06:24to show you videos or photos capturing the guys going down or during the rescue attempt i have a lot
06:30of
06:30photos that i want to show you so they started digging manually from this point like this to reach ayub's
06:38location but we weren't done with manual digging i mean you're okay you're okay you also dig manually
06:44and horizontally to reach ayub the thing is every time they dig i mean you're digging horizontally
06:52you have to put in a pipe like a casing meaning as he digs yeah every time he digs the
06:58distance he
06:58puts in a pipe every time he digs the distance he puts he puts in a pipe like a casing
07:04a pipe why like
07:06that because first of all to protect himself he's afraid that while he's digging a cave in might happen
07:12a collapse a soil collapse happens and this collapsing soil falls on the rescue worker
07:20so every time they dig a little they put in a pipe and they pass through it primarily to protect
07:28their
07:28own lives and to make things easier and preserve life ayub and to make it easier to pull ayub out
07:35in case they reach him he'll come out through these pipes to be honest the distance the horizontal
07:41distance meaning ayub is here where they dug the second well the distance from here to there
07:46they don't know exactly how far they haven't said how much but i mean it's definitely going to be
07:52several meters the guys are facing a lot of difficulties let me tell you about one of these difficulties
08:02the rocks are very hard and there's the fragility of the soil this is also one of the difficulties
08:09so hard rocks fragility of the surrounding soil and the cramped space the workspace inside the well
08:16rather follow along with you step by step i put they gave you full coverage of the entire rescue
08:22operation and the latest we have so far we certainly wish safety for the child ayub and may god be
08:28with
08:29our people in algeria this was ahmed al-dramarouf with you host of the show show sire vlog
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