A young boy in trapped in a well in southern Afghanistan for three days died before locals and authorities were able to rescue him, officials said on Friday.
The boy, who was aged around five years old, had fallen into the well on Wednesday. Since then authorities and ordinary citizens had tried to dig him out, said Sharafat Weyar, head of information and culture for southern Zabul province.
The boy - who local media reported was named Haider - was pulled out of the well on Friday but had died, Weyar said.
