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Six Exercises to Help Avoid Slipping and Falling Down
We typically train to go faster. But mastering how to slow down and stop is just as important.
Training deceleration—a series of movements that help you slow down, change direction, or stop—teaches the body how to control and safely absorb forces. For athletes like rugby players and soccer players who are constantly accelerating from zero to 100 then stopping on a dime, proper deceleration enhances performance and is key to mitigating injury.
Being able to decelerate with control is just as valuable for nonathletes, says
Sylvia Braaten,
physical performance coach for USA Rugby women’s national team.
“As we age, there is a tendency to lose our coordination, athleticism and body control,” says Ms. Braaten, who also serves as the assistant coach for Harvard University’s women’s rugby team. “If you can’t slow down with proper body mechanics while chasing your grandchildren in the yard or playing a pickup basketball game, injuries are more likely to occur. But, if we continue to train these qualities, we can remain athletic and that can have a lasting impact on our overall quality of life.”
Being able to slow down to regain our balance is extremely helpful in the winter, when sidewalks and driveways are icy. “Improving coordination and deceleration mechanics can help us catch ourselves when we start to fall,” she says. And more than one out of four people ages 65 and older falls each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The following drills will reinforce deceleration mechanics, such as dropping the hips and shoulders as you slow down and keeping weight predominantly over the planted foot when you change direction. They are also a fun way to mix up your workout with multiplanar movements and balance and agility challenges, she says.
Start slow and focus on proper technique and landing in a controlled and stable position, she says. “It is better to perform fewer reps and sets with proper form.”
Reverse Eccentric Lunge
Why: Eccentric strength training, where the lowering phase of an exercise is slowed down to keep the muscles under tension for a longer period of time, is a great way to build strength, says Ms. Braaten. This lunge variation forces us to control the lowering motion while working the glutes and hamstrings.
How: Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Step your left foot backward and slowly lower your body for a count of 3 to 5 seconds, until the right thigh is parallel to the floor, knee over your shoe laces. Your torso and shin of the front leg should be parallel. Pause for 1 second then press into the heel of your front foot to come back up to the starting position for a count of 1 second. Perform 3 sets of 5 reps per leg. Rest 1 to 2 minutes per set.
Option: Hold weights for an added challenge.
Ms. Braaten performs a reverse eccentric lunge.
Drop Lunge Snap Down
Why: The additional speed component of this exercise increases the intensity of the lunge and more closely mimics the demands of movements in a rugby match and real life, she says.
How: Stand tall on your tiptoes with arms overhead. Rapidly drop into a reverse lunge with your front foot flat and on the ball of the back foot, with your heel raised. Use a quick and sharp arm drive down toward the floor to help increase the speed of the drop. “Think about transitioning from fast to freezing like a statue,” she says. Slowly rise to the starting position. Perform 2 to 3 sets of 3 reps per side. Rest 30 seconds between sets.
Options: If your balance is difficult, start on flat feet and progress to tip toes. Add weights for more difficulty.
Ms. Braaten does a drop lunge snap down.
Two-Step Falling Deceleration
Why: Being able to safely stop a fall is key to mitigating injury. This drill teaches the body to decelerate while building single-leg strength.
How: Stand tall, with feet hip-width apart. Begin to fall forward with a tall spine. Use two steps to stop. The first step is used to break and the second step is the stick or the leg to decelerate on. Landing on the full foot will help increase balance and allow for a quicker, more efficient deceleration. As you step to break, avoid any inward collapse of the knee. Perform 2 to 3 sets of 3 reps per side. Rest 30 to 45 seconds between sets.
Options: Have a friend stand in front of you as a spot or perform this exercise near a wall.
Ms. Braaten demonstrates how to perform a two-step falling deceleration.
Lateral Rebound Skater Jump
Why: Our body moves in different planes of motion. This drill trains single-leg deceleration in the frontal or side-to-side plane and improves our ability to absorb force.
How: Stand tall, balanced on your left foot. Sink your hips back to load your weight then push and powerfully jump off of that foot to the right. Swing the arms across the body for momentum as you jump. Land balanced on the right foot with a slight bend in the knees and hips.
“The emphasis should initially be on sticking the landing rather than on the distance of the jump,” she says. Reset for the next rep by hopping back to the left leg and repeating the movement. Perform 2 to 3 sets of 4 reps per side. Rest 30 to 45 seconds between sets.
Option: After you are able to consistently stick the landing, you can speed up the tempo to increase the difficulty and intensity for added cardio benefits.
Ms. Braaten does a lateral rebound skater jump.
Deceleration With a Half Turn
Why: This exercise trains agility, coordination and balance. Great for weekend warriors playing cutting sports like basketball or soccer, the deceleration-with-a-half-turn drill reinforces getting into good deceleration positions from a run, she says.
How: Jog forward and after 10 to 15 feet, decelerate by dropping your shoulders slightly to the right and over the inside of your hips. As your right foot plants, complete a half turn to the right. Stop in an athletic ready stance with soft knees and torso and shins parallel. Stick and hold the position before jogging forward 10 to 15 feet again and decelerate in half-turn position to face the left. Alternate half turns to each direction for a total of 3 half-turn decelerations on each side. Perform 3 to 4 sets. Rest 30 to 60 seconds between sets. Increase the pace of the jog to a run to progress.
Ms. Braaten demonstrates the deceleration-with-a-half-turn drill.
Zigzag Tempos
Why: After the above exercises helped strengthen your deceleration positions, this drill will help improve your ability to get in and out of those positions and make you more agile, she says.
How: Place 6 to 8 cones or markers each about 10 to 15 feet apart in a zigzag pattern to get in 3 to 4 decelerations per side. Start at one cone and run at a controlled pace to the next. Decelerate by bending into the knee and flexing at the hip of the planted foot while maintaining a tall spine. Push down into the planted leg to push away from the cone and run to the next one. Decelerate as you reach each cone. Keep the shoulders facing square up field through the entire drill. Try to become a statue at each cone before running to the next. As you increase speed you will need to absorb more force to decelerate efficiently. Perform 3 to 4 sets resting 30 to 60 seconds in between.
Ms. Braaten performs zigzag tempos.
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Employee Engagement Is Actually Falling. Just Don’t Call It ‘Quiet Quitting.’
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I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to rage-read about “rage applying.” I’ve not-so-silently soured on “quiet quitting.” And if one more email hits my inbox about “quiet hiring” or some other supposed trend, it’s going straight to the junk folder.
Enough already.
After three years of pandemic-fueled remote work, record numbers of resignations, heightened burnout and now mass layoffs, I get that it feels like there should be a name for the stress, the turnover, and the disruption of the last few years. Indeed, that may be why—not to mention the incessant cycle of journalists, social media posts and public relations folks who repeat and recirculate these terms—we won’t stop making up words about work, as Vox’s Rani Molla wrote recently.
But talk to anyone who leads human resources teams, and you’ll get an eye roll—and an ear full—when you bring up any of them. People have always applied for new jobs—and yes, many at once—out of frustration in their current ones. “Quiet hiring” is repackaged internal mobility—which may sound like a sinister way to avoid bringing on new employees but can also help reassign underutilized people who might otherwise be laid off.
“Why do [these terms] always have to be alliteration? Why do they have to be two words? I guess we like short form communications,” Paul Rubenstein, the chief people officer at Visier, said in a recent interview. “None of them are truly unique.”
Sure, engagement is lower than it has been. Employee engagement arbiter Gallup released its latest figures Wednesday, and it is seeing a further drop in the data. In 2021, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first annual decline in a decade, dropping from 36% of employees being “engaged” (which it defines as a measure of the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in their work) to 34% in 2021.
That continued into 2022, Gallup reported Wednesday, with now just 32% of full- and part-time employees being engaged. The percent of employees who were actively “disengaged” rose by two percentage points from 2021. Younger workers, women and people whose jobs could be done remotely but were required to be onsite daily—no surprise there—saw the biggest drops in engagement.
But while the numbers have gotten worse—and may be worse than they’ve been in a decade—it’s not like they’ve never been here before. Gallup’s data shows that 32% is still above the line of how many workers were “engaged” between 2000 and 2013, with some years dipping into the mid-20s on a percentage basis.
“People have been checking out and getting burned out at various stages of their careers forever—forever,” Amy Zimmerman, chief people officer at Relay Payments, told me recently. “It’s just the whole concept of engagement”—or disengagement.
The real question, of course, is which way the line will go from here. If a bad recession worsens people’s relationships with their jobs, and the line falls consistently below where engagement bounced around for the last 20 years, then perhaps something fundamental has shifted, and is deserving of a new term. If it stays where it is, or the threat of a recession reminds people that doing the bare minimum may not help keep them employed, I’m not so sure.
In the meantime, let’s try to retire the repetition of these cringe-worthy terms. At a time of mass layoffs and ongoing gun violence and mental health concerns, workers—and the people who lead them—have bigger issues to focus on. Yes, companies are filling slots with temp workers or reassigning people to jobs where they need them more. People are struggling with burnout and staying engaged in their jobs. And fed up workers are now—and always will be—looking for other jobs when their current one isn’t panning out. We don’t need a catchy name to talk about it.
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Microsoft’s big AI bet: ChatGPT maker Open AI got a “game-changing,” multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft, according to Bloomberg, as the tech giant adds to its commitment to the viral artificial intelligence chatbot, which could have big impacts on how we work.
Layoffs surge: Spotify slashed 6% of jobs, and cuts recently hit 3M, crypto exchange Gemini, Alphabet and Wayfair. Tech stocks have surged as investors cheer massive job cut announcements even while employees around the world are facing a job security crisis, a survey of 35,000 workers shows. Nearly 60,000 people were laid off in January alone as major firms increased cuts.
A consultant for the Oval: Ron Klain, President Biden’s chief of staff, will be replaced by former covid czar Jeff Zients, according to multiple reports. The former consultant will face a tough job, navigating a split Congress, growing questions about Biden’s handling of classified documents, and the ramp up to the 2024 election.
Another founder passes the baton: Netflix’s Reed Hastings is stepping down as co-CEO from the streaming service after a rocky year, as one of the few major tech company founders still in place departs the top job.
Ardern’s surprise resignation: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shocked the world when she announced her resignation, saying she no longer has “enough in the tank to do” her leadership job justice. The decision prompted a parade of commentary on women, leadership and burnout—from how other women may relate to the impact her association with the pandemic may have had on her career.
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Layoffs are really bad for companies, writes Bloomberg columnist Sarah Green Carmichael, citing the surprisingly consistent research that shows the downsides for the employers—and the people—who remain.
Stanford University business school professor Jeff Pfeffer—one of my favorite people to talk with about what businesses get wrong when managing people—talks with Stanford News about why there are so many tech layoffs, and the role “contagion” has in expanding them.
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Japan must save its falling birth rate ‘now or never,’ PM Kishida says
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Japan’s prime minister issued a dire warning about the country’s population crisis on Monday, saying it was “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions” due to the falling birth rate.
In a policy address to lawmakers, Fumio Kishida said it was a case of solving the issue “now or never,” and that it “simply cannot wait any longer.”
“In thinking of the sustainability and inclusiveness of our nation’s economy and society, we place child-rearing support as our most important policy,” the prime minister said.
Kishida added that he wants the government to double its spending on child-related programs, and that a new government agency would be set up in April to focus on the issue.
Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, with the Ministry of Health predicting it will record fewer than 800,000 births in 2022 for the first time since records began in 1899.
The country also has one of the highest life expectancies in the world; in 2020, nearly one in 1,500 people in Japan were age 100 or older, according to government data.
These trends have driven a growing demographic crisis, with a rapidly aging society, a shrinking workforce and not enough young people to fill the gaps in the stagnating economy.
Experts point to several factors behind the low birth rate. The country’s high cost of living, limited space and lack of child care support in cities make it difficult to raise children, meaning fewer couples are having kids. Urban couples are also often far from extended family who could help provide support.
Attitudes toward marriage and starting families have also shifted in recent years, with more couples putting off both during the pandemic.
Some point to the pessimism young people in Japan hold toward the future, many frustrated with work pressure and economic stagnation.
Japan’s economy has stalled since its asset bubble burst in the early 1990s. The country’s GDP growth slowed from 4.9% in 1990 to 0.3% in 2019, according to the World Bank. Meanwhile, the average real annual household income declined from 6.59 million yen ($50,600) in 1995 to 5.64 million yen ($43,300) in 2020, according to 2021 data from the country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
The government has launched various initiatives to address the population decline over the past few decades, including new policies to enhance child care services and improve housing facilities for families with children. Some rural towns have even begun paying couples who live there to have children.
Shifting demographics are a concern across other parts of East Asia, too.
South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate, with data from November 2022 showing a South Korean woman will have an average of 0.79 children in her lifetime – far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population. Japan’s fertility rate stands at 1.3, while the United States is at 1.6.
Meanwhile, China’s population shrank in 2022 for the first time since the 1960s, adding to its woes as it struggles to recover from the pandemic. The last time its population fell was in 1961, during a famine that killed tens of millions of people across the country.
US Media Sees Massive Job Cuts Amid Falling Newsroom Employment
CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and other outlets have also reduced their workforces. (Representational)
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From CNN to the Washington Post, US media are facing tough times, as a series of outlets have announced layoffs this winter amid fears of an economic downturn. Vox Media, owner of the Vox and The Verge websites as well as the landmark New York Magazine and its online platforms, announced Friday it was letting go seven percent of its staff.
The news follows layoffs at CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and other outlets.
In a memo to staff on Friday, Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff announced “the difficult decision to eliminate roughly seven percent of our staff roles across departments due to the challenging economic environment impacting our business and industry.”
The memo, which was confirmed to AFP by Vox Media, said the affected employees were going to be notified of being let go within the next 15 minutes. That would mean some 130 out of the group’s 1,900 staff.
Meghan McCarron, an award-winning journalist who spent more than nine years at Eater, a food website owned by Vox Media, tweeted Friday she was among those laid off — while 37 weeks pregnant.
“My partner and I are so excited to become parents,” McCarron posted. “I can’t really process the amount of uncertainty we’re now facing,” she added.
A Vox spokesperson told AFP they could not comment on specific cases, but that employees were offered “competitive severance packages,” including extra severance pay for those with “a near-term upcoming parental leave planned.”
Journalists who were laid off from other organizations in recent weeks have also taken to Twitter to express anger, dismay, or gratitude to their colleagues, while beginning to look for a new job.
“I’ll be figuring out my next move. I’m a data reporter but I also write and produce,” tweeted Emily Siegel, who was let go after five years as an investigative reporter at NBC. “I’d love to keep doing this work. My (direct messages) are open.”
‘Under pressure for a long time’
While the media layoffs were not as dramatic as those rocking tech giants such as Microsoft and Google, which announced Friday it was cutting 12,000 more jobs, they were a consequence of falling advertising revenue amid a gloomy economic climate, said Chris Roush, dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
“For a lot of them, they grew and expanded on the expectation that they were going to be able to grow their audience, or either readers or viewers to a certain level,” Roush told AFP.” And that just hasn’t happened and is unlikely to happen given what’s happening in the economy.”
Newsroom employment has seen a steady decline in the United States, falling from 114,000 to 85,000 journalists between 2008 and 2020, according to a 2021 study by the Pew Research Center, with local media hit especially hard.
“Journalism has been under pressure for a long time, and a number of companies seem to think this is an opportune time to reduce their labour costs – hurting both journalists and journalism,” the Writers Guild of America, East said in a statement to AFP.
The union comprises journalists from NBC and MSNBC. The two outlets, which declined an AFP request for comment, bid farewell to some 75 employees, according to US media.
A similar announcement is dreaded at the Washington Post, where CEO Fred Ryan warned last month that “a number of positions” will be cut in the following weeks, adding that the layoffs would affect “a single digit percentage of our employee base” of some 2,500 people. Hires for other positions can continue, the paper said.
The Washington Post Magazine, the paper’s Sunday supplement which won two Pulitzer prizes, was shut down in December as part of what executive editor Sally Buzbee described in a memo as the paper’s “global and digital transformation.”
And Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc announced to her staff Friday that the company is up for sale.
‘Steep, secular decline’
In recent months, CNN has laid off an estimated several hundred workers out of a total of some 4,000 people, according to US media. CNN would not confirm those figures to AFP.
The cuts took place as the company underwent a restructuring following a merger between Warner Media, which includes CNN and HBO Max, and Discovery. The merger resulted in the creation of the Warner Bros. Discovery mega conglomerate.
Following the merger, CNN’s new parent company abruptly pulled the plug on the network’s $100 million streaming service CNN+.
Naveen Sarma, a senior media analyst with S&P Global Rating, noted a “steep, secular decline” of traditional broadcast and cable television in the United States, leading to a dramatic drop in subscriptions to paid TV.
“That’s a constant ongoing struggle for all these companies to come in,” said Mr Sarma.
Roush of Quinnipiac University says the changes were especially painful for smaller media.
“CNN, Washington Post, those are not going away, but a smaller company, they have bigger issues, because they’re just smaller and not as well established as a media brand,” he said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Florida Rep. Greg Steube was transported to a hospital Wednesday afternoon after he fell off a roof.
“Congressman Steube was involved in an accident on his property late this afternoon and has sustained several injuries. We will provide additional updates when possible. Please pray for the Congressman and his family,” Steube’s team said in a statement on Twitter.
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Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.
NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to survive.
The space agency put the odds of injury from falling debris at about 1-in-9,400.
The science satellite is expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours, according to the Defense Department.
The California-based Aerospace Corp., however is targeting Monday morning, give or take 13 hours, along a track passing over Africa, Asia the Middle East and the westernmost areas of North and South America.
.The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known as ERBS, was launched in 1984 aboard space shuttle Challenger. Although its expected working lifetime was two years, the satellite kept making ozone and other atmospheric measurements until its retirement in 2005. The satellite studied how Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the sun.
The satellite got a special sendoff from Challenger. America’s first woman in space, Sally Ride, released the satellite into orbit using the shuttle’s robot arm. That same mission also featured the first spacewalk by a U.S. woman: Kathryn Sullivan. It was the first time two female astronauts flew in space together.
It was the second and final spaceflight for Ride, who died in 2012.
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Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.
NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to survive.
The space agency put the odds of injury from falling debris at about 1-in-9,400.
The science satellite is expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours, according to the Defense Department.
The California-based Aerospace Corp., however is targeting Monday morning, give or take 13 hours, along a track passing over Africa, Asia the Middle East and the westernmost areas of North and South America.
.The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known as ERBS, was launched in 1984 aboard space shuttle Challenger. Although its expected working lifetime was two years, the satellite kept making ozone and other atmospheric measurements until its retirement in 2005. The satellite studied how Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the sun.
The satellite got a special sendoff from Challenger. America’s first woman in space, Sally Ride, released the satellite into orbit using the shuttle’s robot arm. That same mission also featured the first spacewalk by a U.S. woman: Kathryn Sullivan. It was the first time two female astronauts flew in space together.
It was the second and final spaceflight for Ride, who died in 2012.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.
NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to survive.
The space agency put the odds of injury from falling debris at about 1-in-9,400.
The science satellite is expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours, according to the Defense Department.
The California-based Aerospace Corp., however is targeting Monday morning, give or take 13 hours, along a track passing over Africa, Asia the Middle East and the westernmost areas of North and South America.
.The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known as ERBS, was launched in 1984 aboard space shuttle Challenger. Although its expected working lifetime was two years, the satellite kept making ozone and other atmospheric measurements until its retirement in 2005. The satellite studied how Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the sun.
The satellite got a special sendoff from Challenger. America’s first woman in space, Sally Ride, released the satellite into orbit using the shuttle’s robot arm. That same mission also featured the first spacewalk by a U.S. woman: Kathryn Sullivan. It was the first time two female astronauts flew in space together.
It was the second and final spaceflight for Ride, who died in 2012.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
Vietnamese boy, 10, dead after falling into 115-foot concrete hole
Vietnamese authorities announced Wednesday that the 10-year-old boy trapped down a 115-foot deep concrete hole since New Year’s Eve is dead, according to reports.
The boy, identified as Thai Ly Hao Nam, initially was heard crying for help when he slipped through a 10-inch diameter shaft at a bridge construction site in the Dong Thap province Saturday morning while searching for scrap metal with friends.
Despite oxygen being pumped down into the hole amid efforts to reach him, the boy stopped interacting with rescuers Monday. Crews lowered down a camera to try to pinpoint his location.
The BBC reported Wednesday the boy was cut while rescuers were trying to raise the pillar.
VIETNAM RESCUERS RACE TO SAVE BOY TRAPPED DOWN 115-FOOT CONCRETE HOLE SINCE NEW YEAR’S EVE
Doan Tan Buu, deputy chairman of the Dong Thap provincial peoples committee, speaks to the media in Dong Thap province Jan. 4, 2023, as news emerged of the death of a boy trapped in a deep shaft at a construction site.
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Doan Tan Buu, deputy chief of the southern Vietnam province, also said not enough oxygen could reach the 10-year-old, who had already suffered multiple injuries.
“We had prioritized the rescue of the boy. However, the conditions mean it is impossible the boy has survived,” he said.
Rescuers look down into the site of where a 10-year-old boy is thought to be trapped in a 35-meter deep shaft at a bridge construction site in Vietnam’s Dong Thap province Jan. 2, 2023.
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The official said he consulted with medical experts before declaring the boy’s death Wednesday, but crews would still work to recover the 10-year-old’s body as soon as possible for proper burial, AFP reported. The official added that doing so would be a “very difficult task.”
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday tapped federal rescuers to join local authorities’ efforts to save the boy, AFP reported.
Hundreds of rescuers in Vietnam worked Jan. 2, 2023, to free a 10-year-old boy who fell into a 35-meter hole on a construction site two days before.
(STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hundreds of soldiers and engineering experts were mobilized Tuesday to try to save him, according to the BBC. Crews tried drilling to soften the soil surrounding the pillar to attempt to bring the pillar upward out of the ground. They also lowered down a 62-foot pipe to try to remove mud and water to soften pressure around the pillar.