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, <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/01/26/body-of-spanish-toddler-julen-is-found?fromBreakingNews=1">reports</a> Euronews.
&#8220;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,&#8221; 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&#8217;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&#8217;s parents and thanked the rescue team for their efforts to find the boy&#8217;s body.
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Spanish rescuers find body of toddler trapped in borehole

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Rescue crews in Spain appeared to be centimeters of rock away late Friday from the space where a 2-year-old boy is believed to be trapped underground after falling into a borehole 12 days ago, VOA news <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/anti-maduro-coalition-reportedly-grew-from-secret-talks/4759461.html">reports</a>.
Julen Rosello fell down the narrow 110-meter-deep borehole (360 feet) on Jan. 13 while his family was preparing a countryside Sunday lunch. His parents had another young son who died in 2017, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
The tragic accident in Malaga province gripped Spaniards from day one and the country has followed closely every turn of an extremely complex and frequently hampered search-and-rescue mission.
The dry waterhole, only 25 centimeters in diameter (about 10 inches), is too narrow for an adult to get into and hardened soil and rock blocked equipment from progressing to the place two-thirds of the way down where Julen is thought to be.
Officials have been trying to create alternative routes to the toddler. A series of small explosions set off since Thursday afternoon, including a fourth one late Friday, helped workers dig most of a 3.8-meter-long horizontal tunnel (about 12 feet) to the cavity.
The tunnel is 70 meters (230 feet) underground, and a vertical shaft had to be drilled over the past few days to bring miners and rescue experts up and down during the painstaking engineering feat.
Jorge Martin, a spokesman with the Malaga province Civil Guard, said the most recent controlled explosion was needed to complete the last 45 centimeters (about 18 inches).
&#8220;This controlled micro-explosion needs to be extremely precise due to the proximity to the place where Julen supposedly is,&#8221; Martin told reporters at the site.
The only sign of the toddler found so far is hair that matched his DNA, but officials have refused to comment on whether he could have survived so long.
In one of the few media interviews the child&#8217;s parents have given, father Jose Rosello said the family was &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; by the long wait but hoping for &#8220;a miracle.&#8221;
El Pais reported that the couple lost Julen&#8217;s older brother, Oliver, when the 3-year-old suffered a heart attack during a walk on the beach two years ago.
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Rescue for Trapped Spanish Boy Reaches Critical Point

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The search for a two-year-old Spanish boy who fell into a narrow well Jan. 13 entered its riskiest phase Thursday as miners went down a new 60-meter (197-foot) parallel shaft to start digging across to the well, VOA news <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/spanish-miners-start-risky-tunneling-to-reach-missing-boy/4757809.html">reports</a>.
There have been no signs of life since the boy, Julen, fell into the borehole as his family walked through a private estate in Totalan in southern Spain. Rescuers found the well was blocked with earth, raising fears soil had collapsed onto the child.
&#8220;Members of the Mines Rescue Brigade sent from Asturias [region] have just accessed the vertical well to start excavation &#8230; in the search for Julen,&#8221; said regional government representative Alfonso Celis at the site.
Miners working in rotating shifts will dig a 4-meter passage with picks and pneumatic hammers from the bottom of the shaft toward the borehole, which is 100 meters (300 feet) deep and just 25 cm wide.
Children and families have been holding candlelight vigils across Spain in support of the missing boy and of the massive rescue operation, even as hopes of finding him alive have faded with each passing day.
Engineers and miners have worked for 10 days in a row but have run into various technical problems while drilling a shaft parallel to the well.
&#8220;No miner is left in a mine, and Julen is now considered a miner,&#8221; Juan Lopez Escobar, one of the engineers in charge of the rescue operation, was quoted as saying by EFE news agency. &#8220;Whatever may have happened, a miner is always pulled out.&#8221;
He told reporters earlier that digging the horizontal passage would be the most dangerous part of the effort.
El Pais reported that Julen&#8217;s parents suffered another tragedy in 2017 when their three-year-old son died suddenly after suffering a cardiac arrest while walking along a beach.
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