Rescuers Try to Save 10-Year-Old Boy Trapped in Concrete Hole in Vietnam

Rescuers look down into the site of where a 10-year-old boy is thought to be trapped in a 35-meter deep shaft at a bridge construction area in Vietnam's Dong Thap province, on Jan. 2, 2023. STR/AFP via Getty Images

Rescuers in Vietnam are trying to rescue a 10-year-old boy who fell into a deep and narrow open hole at a construction site on New Year’s Eve.

The boy, Ly Hao Nam, had been searching for scrap metal with friends when he fell into the shaft at a bridge construction site in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, on the morning of Dec. 31.