SEARCH ON FOR TODDLER WHO FELL IN BOREHOLE

More than 100 firefighters and emergency workers in southern Spain searched Monday for a twoyear-old toddler who fell into a deep borehole. Rescuers have been unable to get into the borehole, which is no wider than 25 centimetres in diameter and is believed to go down more than 100 metres. On Monday they were trying three different approaches to reach the bottom of the well but without damaging its structure or blocking it with soil and rocks, local authorities said. According to rescuers, the boy fell into the hole Sunday afternoon after walking away from his parents while playing in a mountainous area near the town of Totalan, northeast of Malaga.

The hole, which is too narrow for an adult to enter, had been bored a month earlier during water prospection works and had not been covered or protected, local media reported.

The provincial representative of the Spanish government, Maria Gamez, said that firefighters using a robot camera in the early hours of Monday found a bag of candy that the boy was carrying, some 75 metres down the shaft.