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Rescuers pull Moroccan boy, 5, out of deep well

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Morocco Boy Trapped. Picture: PA

No details were available about his condition.

Moroccan rescuers on Saturday pulled a five-year-old boy out of a deep well where he was trapped for four days.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw the boy wrapped in a yellow blanket after he emerged from a tunnel dug specifically for the rescue.

No details were available about his condition.

His parents had been escorted to an ambulance before the boy, Rayan, emerged.

His plight had captured worldwide attention.

By Press Association