The hours pass and there is no trace of Yulen . The Civil Guard leads an operation involving more than a hundred people to locate Yulen the two-year-old boy who fell in a well on Sunday on the outskirts of Totalán (Málaga), according to his family.
Although the Civil Guard still does not know for sure the whereabouts of the child, its spokesman, Bernardo Moltó, explained that no investigation has been initiated for any other eventuality.
“We do not do anything other than seek solutions to the rescue,” he said, while explaining that the operation is “overwhelmed” by the number of companies that have offered their help and technical means, mainly from Andalusia but also from other points of the country like Catalonia.
The parents, however, are convinced that the child fell into the pit.
The hole in the area known as Dolmen Cerro de la Corona had an opening of around 25cm in diameter and is thought to be around 110 meters deep. It was created around a month ago for the purpose of water exploration and had a cover that had been removed and was lying nearby.
One of the adults saw the child slip into the hole and he was heard screaming before becoming silent. The alarm was immediately raised and teams from the fire department, Civil Guard, Local and National Police, emergency health services were all mobilized to the scene.
On Monday morning rescuers retrieved a bag of sweets that the boy had been clutching in his hand but the teams had still not been able to locate the child.
A micro robot with cameras had been lowered to depth of 80 meters but found no trace of the child, although a bag of sweets that the boy had been clutching in his hand was found.
Francisco Delgado Bonilla, the head of the province’s fire brigade explained the technical difficulty of the rescue operation where earth from the walls of the well may have been dislodged during the fall and maybe covering the child.
Local newspapers reported that the family had suffered tragedy two years ago when Oliver, the older brother of Yulan, died suddenly of a heart attack aged just three years old.
