💔 “DAD, GET ME OUT…” — THE 4-DAY RESCUE FOR 10-YEAR-OLD AYOUB ENDED IN TRAGEDY 🇩🇿

A simple walk home turned into a heartbreaking four-day rescue operation that kept an entire community in Algeria waiting and praying.

Ayoub, just 10 years old, fell into a dry well in the village of Er Rekn, in Algeria’s El Bayadh province, on Wednesday, September 2.

The well was about 80 meters — more than 260 feet — deep and only around 40 centimeters wide.

Ayoub had reportedly been returning home after bringing food to his older brother, who was tending sheep, when a wooden covering over the opening gave way beneath him.

Then came the moment his father will never forget.

After realizing his son was missing, Ayoub’s father rushed to the well and called his name.

From deep underground, he heard his little boy answer.

Ayoub was alive.

And he was crying for help.

“Dad, get me out.”

His father tried to reassure him while emergency crews were called.

Rescuers immediately began working to reach the child.

But the narrow, deep shaft made it impossible for rescuers to simply climb down.

The ground itself became another enemy.

Rocks, unstable soil and the extreme depth made every movement dangerous.

So rescue teams began digging a second shaft alongside the original well, hoping to reach Ayoub from the side.

Heavy machinery was brought in.

Civil Protection specialists, technical teams and other authorities worked around the clock.

As the hours turned into days, people across the region gathered near the site, watching anxiously and hoping for a miracle.

The operation entered its fourth day.

A parallel shaft had been dug, and rescuers began attempting to create a horizontal passage toward the location where Ayoub was believed to be trapped.

Every meter mattered.

Every delay felt unbearable.

The entire operation had become a race against time.

But on Saturday, September 5, Algeria’s Civil Protection announced the news everyone had feared.

Rescuers had located Ayoub.

But they could only bring his body back to the surface.

The four-day rescue operation had ended in tragedy.

The little boy who had cried for his father from 80 meters underground would not be coming home alive.

News of Ayoub’s death sent shockwaves across Algeria, where thousands had been following the rescue operation and hoping the 10-year-old would emerge alive.

His funeral was held on Sunday, with large numbers of residents and local officials attending to say goodbye.

For four days, rescuers had refused to stop.

For four days, his family waited.

For four days, people hoped they would hear different news.

Instead, Algeria was left mourning a child whose final words to his father became one of the most heartbreaking parts of the story.

“Dad, get me out.” 💔

Ayoub’s death has also renewed concerns about the dangers posed by unsecured and abandoned wells in rural areas.

But beyond the debate and the headlines, there is a family now facing a pain that no parent should ever have to endure.

A 10-year-old boy went out one ordinary day.

He never made it home.

And an entire country watched, hoping desperately that this story would have a different ending.