Rescuers race to reach boy trapped in Afghanistan well for two days

The five-year-old boy is believed to have fallen into the well in a remote village while helping adults dig a borehole

Rescuers were desperately scrambling to reach a five-year-old boy trapped for two days down a well in a remote southern Afghan village.

The operation in Shokak village, Zabul province, comes less than two weeks after a similar attempt to rescue a child from a Moroccan well gripped the world - but ended with the boy found dead.