The race is on to save a five-year-old boy who has been stuck inside a well for the last three days, writes Sky News.

Rescue workers in northern Morocco have been digging around the clock to reach the young child who became trapped at the bottom of the 32m deep well after he fell down it on Tuesday night. Response teams have managed to pass him oxygen and water using a rope but have not been able to reach him to bring him back to the surface.

“I pray and beg God that he comes out of that well alive and safe”, - the boy’s mother Wassima Kharchich told local television 2M. “Please God, ease my pain and his, in that hole of dust”.

A CCTV camera has been sent down to monitor him, according to Morocco’s official MAP news agency.