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Boy rescued from well dies in east China

Xinhua,April 18, 2018 Adjust font size:

JINAN, April 18 (Xinhua) -- A five-year-old boy who was rescued from a village well in east China's Shandong Province on Wednesday died hours later while receiving treatment at a hospital.

The boy was playing near his home in Yaogou Village, in the city of Anqiu, when he accidentally fell into a 100-meter-deep well on Tuesday afternoon. He was stuck around six meters underground, according to a local official.

More than 50 people and a dozen excavators worked to rescue the child from the narrow well.

After 14 hours, he was freed and taken to a nearby hospital. Enditem