Rescuers to raise concrete pillar with trapped boy

Vietnam mobilised soldiers and engineering experts to try free a 10-year-old boy trapped in a buried hollow concrete pillar on a construction site.

Rescuers hope to raise the pillar from its 35-metre-deep hole and cut the boy, named Thai Ly Hao Nam, out — though after three days trapped inside.The youngster fell into the 25-centimetre wide shaft of the pillar, sunk as part of a new bridge in Mekong delta province of Dong Thap, apparently while looking for scrap metal.

A wider 19-metre-long metal pipe has been lowered around the concrete tube in which Nam is trapped to allow them to remove mud from around the pillar.