A Saudi Arabian newspaper has reported that a five-year-old child died at a hospital after being rescued from a ground sanitation reservoir.
In the Rafha governorate in northern Saudi Arabia, a boy named Qassem Al Saadi fell into a reservoir near his family's house.
Two workers towed him up and he was taken to a local hospital where he was put on a ventilator.
As his health condition did not improve, his father transferred him on a medical plane to the Saudi-German Hospital in Riyadh where he stayed for a week and died Friday night due to a sharp decline in blood circulation and heart problems, according to the report. On Saturday, he was buried near Riyadh.
Volunteers rescued an 11-year-old boy who was trapped for two days inside an underground reservoir in central Saudi Arabia last month.
He was found stuck inside a dry reservoir under construction.
As the rescuer was passing a building under construction, the volunteer heard cries coming from inside the reservoir alerting him to the child's location.
In February, Saudi authorities started a campaign to backfill abandoned wells following the death in Morocco of a five-year-old boy who was trapped in a 32-metre well for five days.
