Race against time to save Spanish boy enters 6th day

The race against the time for the Spanish rescuers to save the little Julen Rossello, the two-year-old boy who fell last Sunday in a well near Malaga enters the sixth day and despite the technical problems slowing down the rescue operations there is belief that the baby is alive .

Maria Gamez, representative of the Spanish government in the province of Malaga, promised that the research will continue until the child is saved. “We are not going to stop for a minute,” she said, adding that “no one in the rescue team doubts whether we will pull him out, we are all confident he is alive”.

The adults can not get into the well that is only 25 centimetres in diameter and 110 meters deep and the machinery has been blocked by the ground which is too hard and by a rock formation two thirds of the descent.

So far no voice contact has been established with Julen.