Today, Sunday, Morocco is preparing for the funeral of the child Rayan, in a solemn public funeral, after the causes of death were determined by specialized doctors.
The body of the “well child” is lying in the military hospital in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, after 5 days of clinging to the hope of finding him and exhuming him alive.
After announcing the official news of his death, the Royal Court explained in a statement issued yesterday evening, Saturday, that King Mohammed VI had made a phone call to Rayan’s parents, and expressed his deepest condolences to all family members, and also expressed his appreciation for the tireless efforts of the authorities during the process of removing Rayan from the well.
The operation to rescue Rayan, a 5-year-old stuck in the middle of a well 60 meters deep and not exceeding 30 cm in diameter, on the outskirts of Chefchaouen, in northern Morocco, occupied the whole world.
The incident witnessed great sympathy from all over the world, as tweeters posted on the social networking site “Twitter”, pictures of the child and attached them to blogs in different languages, and launched many hashtags.
The child spent about 100 hours inside a narrow hole in the well, during which he suffered a hemorrhage in his head due to hitting the rocks during his fall. Medical examinations conducted by the medical team that entered the tunnel to extract the child Ryan showed that he was suffering from fractures in the neck and spine.
Millions in Morocco and the Arab world awaited a happy end to the ordeal of the child, whose story brought wide international sympathy, but fate decided that he breathed his last alone shortly before the rescue teams arrived, according to RT.