Please bring my grandson home
Well boy grandma’s plea to stop 2nd family tragedy
THE gran of a toddler trapped down a 350ft well has implored rescuers to bring him home – and spare his frantic parents the heartache of losing a second child.
Julen, two, fell down the 10in-wide hole on a countryside trip on Sunday.
And his ordeal comes after mum Vicky Garcia and dad Jose Rosello lost his brother Oliver to a heart condition two years ago, aged three.
Fighting back tears on her doorstep as rescuers began tunnelling to reach Julen, grandmother Reme Garcia said: “Bring my grandson home.”
And in a heart-wrenching message to Oliver on social media, she added: “Today all I ask is that your brother comes out now. He needs you. Oliver, don’t forget your brother Julen.
“You know we’ve been waiting for him for many hours. I know you protect him a lot, my little king.”
Police have been unable to reach the tot or find signs of life apart from a pack of sweets and plastic cup recovered from a blockage 250ft down.
Expert engineers from the Swedish firm that helped save 33 trapped Chilean miners in 2010 were drafted in yesterday to aid the mission in Totalan, near Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
Crews have begun digging two tunnels, one parallel to the well, which was dug by prospectors seeking water, and one horizontally from the mountainside. The latest attempt comes after dad Jose criticised the rescue operation. He told Spanish news: “There’s been a lot of tweets offering support but no resources. Can you imagine what it’s been like? We’re dying.”
The family are clinging to hope there may be a pocket of air and water at the bottom of the well that is keeping Julen alive. Mum Vicky revealed they could hear him crying after he fell but added: “Now we can’t hear him any more.” Tony Haigh of the British Cave Rescue Council, which helped save the trapped Thai football team in July, said: “The situation looks fairly desperate. We have not been asked to help.”