Hundreds of rescuers in northern China strove Wednesday to reach a boy who had been trapped in an abandoned well for over 60 hours. The six-year-old was helping his father harvest cabbage at Baoding city in the northern province of Hebei Sunday when he toppled down the 40-metre-deep (131-foot) well, the Hebei News Network said. As of 6pm Wednesday no signs of life had been found, it added.
A team of more than 500 rescuers and one hundred excavators arrived on scene after the father made a call for help on Chinese social media, the official Xinhua news agency said.