Rescuers are just a metre away from the young boy who has been trapped at the bottom of a well in Morocco for three days.
Workers with mechanical diggers have been conducting the delicate and dangerous operation to rescue five-year-old Rayan Awram, but have been constantly delayed by rocks and imperilled by the threat of landslide.
Rayan's life has been on the line after he fell into a 100ft (32m) deep well in the hills near Chefchaouen near the Rif Mountains on Tuesday.