Spain grieves after body of boy who fell down well found
Spain grieved on Saturday after a toddler who fell down a well was found dead in a tragic end to a 13-day rescue operation.
Hundreds of engineers, police and miners had been working round-the-clock to reach two-year-old Julen Rosello, who plunged down a narrow, illegal well on January 13 as his parents prepared lunch nearby in Totalan, a southern town near Malaga.
The rescue team "found the lifeless body of the little one" in the early hours of Saturday morning, the central government's representative in the southern region of Andalusia, Alfonso Rodriguez Gomez de Celis, wrote on Twitter.
"Not another time, no," shouted his father Jose, according to an AFP photographer, after the child's body was found.
His parents lost another child, Oliver, aged three, in 2017. The child had cardiac problems.
Julen fell 71 metres (232 feet) before hitting a layer of earth, Gomez de Celis later told reporters, adding that an investigation was underway to determine any "potential liabilities" in the ..