The dead body a two-year-old boy who had fallen down a well in southern Spain was found on Saturday morning, said Spanish officials, reports Euronews.
“At 1:25 a.m., the rescue teams reached the area of the well where they were looking for Julen and they found the lifeless body of the little one,” said a government spokesperson in Malaga.
Rescuers had launched a massive drilling operation to look for Julen who fell into the 100-metre deep borehole on January 13 as his family was walking through a private estate in the town of Totalan.
Euronews correspondent Cristina Giner said that after the emergency call of Julen’s parents nearly two weeks ago, a court in Malaga opened legal proceedings. The investigation will now have to determine under what circumstances the events occurred in the family farm where the toddler fell.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior tweeted their condolences to Julen’s parents and thanked the rescue team for their efforts to find the boy’s body.