Lamiat Sabin wrote the following article in The Independent:

Moroccan rescuers have pulled a five-year-old boy out of a deep well where he was trapped for four days. 

He was taken to hospital and has died, according to an official statement reported by Moroccan media.

Moroccan TV channel 2M tweeted an official royal statement saying that King Mohammed VI had called Rayan’s parents to “express his deepest condolences and sincere sympathy to all members of the family of the deceased in this painful affliction”.