Rescuers Ready to Drill Tunnel for Spanish Boy Trapped in Well

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TOTALAN, Spain—Heavy trucks brought drilling equipment and giant pipes as rescue workers prepared on Jan. 18, to dig a tunnel in an effort to reach a two-year-old boy who has been trapped in a deep well in southern Spain since Jan. 13.

“The priority now is the works on the vertical tunnel,” said a spokeswoman for the regional government in Malaga.