CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — A second hole is being dug in an effort to reach the body of a 4- year- old New Mexico boy trapped in a 30-foot hole near his Carlsbad neighborhood.
Crews are using a large excavator along with metal shoring typically used in pipeline construction projects.
Police spokeswoman Jennifer Moyers tells KOB- TV crews are digging at a slope, so the walls don’t collapse.
The Carlsbad Current- Argus reports efforts to recover the body of Samuel Jones began Sunday afternoon after a detective shined his flashlight down a hole and saw what appeared to be a body dressed in clothing Samuel was last wearing.
Searchers later sent a camera down the hole and confirmed a child was about 30 feet down. Temperature and oxygen levels were later taken and showed no signs of life.
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