“Hang on to a rock” .. A painful video of a father watching alone in the torrential rains

While the torrential rains have swept Mauritania two days ago, social media sites were buzzing with a video of a child stuck since Saturday morning in the city of Boumdid in the center of the country.

The child, exhausted by hunger, thirst and exhaustion, is shown battling torrents by fixing himself on a rock.

The video clip also documents a painful moment for the child’s father as he watched with the parents, his only son trapped in the torrential rain, without being able to save him, appealing to him not to give in to fatigue.

Rescue teams arrive

In addition, the Ministry of Interior confirmed that rescue teams had arrived at the Boumedied Dam to rescue the stranded boy.

She explained in a press briefing on Sunday that the rescue steps are proceeding at an accelerated pace, according to the official news agency.

Take all actions

It is noteworthy that the ministerial committee in charge of emergency management in the country had reassured citizens that all measures and preparations had been taken to address any emergency, stressing that the necessary measures had been taken to evacuate citizens from places, destinations and corridors of floods in various regions.

She said in a statement on Saturday that the necessary logistical means were mobilized in order to break the isolation of the areas besieged by torrential rains, especially the air force, the military engineering, the national navy and water-suction trucks.

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