Spanish boy found dead in borehole after desperate 13-day search

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A two-year-old boy who fell down a borehole in Spain nearly two weeks ago prompting a complex rescue operation has been found dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Julen Rosello fell down the narrow&comma; 360-feet deep borehole on January 13 while his family was preparing a countryside Sunday lunch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adding to the family&&num;8217&semi;s tragedy&comma; Spanish media had reported that his parents had another young son who died of a heart attack in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Julen&&num;8217&semi;s remains were found in the early hours of Saturday by rescuers digging a tunnel to reach him&comma; said a spokeswoman with the Spanish government&&num;8217&semi;s office in the southern province of Malaga&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The spokeswoman said that a judicial commission would follow up with the accident&&num;8217&semi;s investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tragedy had gripped Spaniards from day one and the country had followed closely every turn of an extremely complex operation&comma; frequently hampered by layers of hard rock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The dry waterhole&comma; only 10 inches in diameter&comma; was 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 the toddler was trapped&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the nearly two weeks of the ordeal&comma; officials came up with several alternative routes to the toddler&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A series of small explosions set off since Thursday afternoon&comma; including a fourth one late on Friday&comma; helped the crews make their way through a horizontal tunnel to the cavity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before that tunnel could be dug some 230 feet underground&comma; a vertical shaft was drilled during days of painstaking engineering to bring miners and rescue experts up and down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;timgcap&equals;Drill and excavating machinery work on top of the mountain next to a deep borehole to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped there for twelve days near the town of Totalan in Malaga&comma; Spain&period; &lpar;Alex Zea&sol;Europa Press via AP&rpar;&rsqb;SiteOfDiggingSPanishBorehole260119&lowbar;large&period;jpg&lbrack;-&sol;timgcap&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The difficulty of the operation had prompted Jorge Martin&comma; a spokesman with the Malaga province Civil Guard&comma; to say&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We have to be very careful&comma; here the mountain is in control&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Only hair that matched Julen&&num;8217&semi;s DNA was found in the borehole and no other verbal or visual contact had been established with him&period; Despite that&comma; officials had refused to speculate over whether the boy could have survived so long&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In one of the few media interviews the child&&num;8217&semi;s parents gave before the body was found&comma; father Jose Rosello said the family was &&num;8220&semi;heartbroken&&num;8221&semi; by the long wait but hoping for &&num;8220&semi;a miracle&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>El Pais reported that the couple had lost Julen&&num;8217&semi;s older brother&comma; Oliver&comma; when the three-year-old suffered a heart attack during a walk on the beach two years ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed0ddaee55c">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; 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