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Funeral held for 5-year-old boy that fell down well

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February 8, 2022

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In Morocco, a funeral has been held for 5-year-old Rayan Oram

The boy died after falling down a 32-meter well on February 1 and becoming trapped for four days.

This prompted a large scale rescue that received worldwide media attention.

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Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral after noontime prayers on Monday in Ighran, Rayan Oram’s home village and where the tragedy occurred.

For all those attending, there was not enough space in the hilltop cemetery and prayer site in the northern Rif mountains.

A villager says that they are “over 50 years old” and have never seen as many people at a funeral.

“Rayan is the son of us all”
One villager says.

He was buried at Zawiya cemetery, in a plot where his other family members were laid to rest only six kilometres away from the village.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI offered his deepest condolences to the boy’s parents in a statement released over the weekend.

At Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final in Cameroon, players and fans held a moment of silence in tribute to Rayan.

The exact circumstances of how the boy fell in the well are unclear.

Written by Savannah Pocock

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