Algeria: Child Ayoub found dead

The Algerian Civil Protection announced on Saturday that rescue teams had found the body of 10-year-old Ayoub, after exhausting efforts to extract him from a dry artesian well into which he had fallen four days earlier in the Béchar province in the southwest of the country. A statement from the Civil Protection read: “Following the rescue operation of a child who fell into a dry artesian well in the locality known as Rukna Village, Ghsoul Municipality, Béchar Province, the child’s location was identified and he was recovered deceased. May God have mercy on him.”