Heartbreak For Parents After Boy Who Fell Down Spanish Well Found Dead

The difficulty of the operation had prompted Jorge Martin, a spokesman with the Malaga province Civil Guard, to say: “We have to be very careful, here the mountain is in control.”

Only hair that matched Julen’s DNA was found in the borehole and no other verbal or visual contact had been established with him. Despite that, officials had refused to speculate over whether the boy could have survived so long.

In one of the few media interviews the child’s parents gave before the body was found, father Jose Rosello said the family was “heartbroken” by the long wait but hoping for “a miracle”.

El Pais reported that the couple had lost Julen’s older brother, Oliver, when the three-year-old suffered a heart attack during a walk on the beach two years ago.