Hair find at 250ft in well hunt for lad, 2

THE parents of a toddler trapped in a well have vowed not to give up hope after experts found hair 250ft down.

It is still not known if Julen Rosello, two, is dead or alive after more than four days missing down the 10in-wide borehole – and rescuers are in a desperate race against time to dig him out.

But appearing in public for the first time yesterday, dad Jose Rosello, 29, said that he is drawing his strength from “knowing I will see my son alive”.

Spanish authorities confirmed they found the hair, believed to be Julen’s, in a blockage of earth and sand partway down the 350ft shaft.

It could take up to two more days to finish boring two tunnels to reach the tot, with a crack team of expert mining rescuers digging the last section by hand.

One shaft is being created running parallel to the well shaft and another is being cut horizontally through the mountainside.

A Swedish company that helped locate 33 trapped Chilean miners in 2010 is on site and will be using geolocation technology to pinpoint where Julen is stuck.

Previously, the only trace of the youngster found at the site in Totalan, near Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol, was a bag of sweets and a plastic cup he had been carrying.

Jose has told how he “had his heart broken into a thousand pieces” by the sudden death of their other son Oliver, three, and “now it is in three thousand”. He has said he and wife Vicky Garcia, 39, tried to rebuild their lives after Oliver collapsed due to a heart condition in 2017.