After over a week, there still has been no sight of the six-year-old boy who fell down a manhole while playing with friends in Soweto.
Khayalethu Magadla plunged into an uncovered manhole at a popular park on Mtambo Street in Dlamini, Soweto, and has been missing since.
Johannesburg Emergency services spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi said the teams have covered eight kilometers of the 13-kilometer pipeline, from the manhole where Khaya slipped into, in an attempt to locate him.
“We have already covered about eight kilometers of the pipeline. The distance between the first manhole and the sleep chamber is 13 kilometers, so we are already past halfway. Today we have options that we are exploring in some of the manholes that we have before getting into the ventilation chamber, so we are hoping that we might location around this area if not, we will continue until we get up into the sleep chamber, which might be today, tomorrow, or Wednesday. from there we will be focusing on the sleep chamber.”
Mulaudzi explained that it is now a recovery mission.
“It is actually now a recovery because we have already passed about seven days already. The chances that we find him alive are very slim now.”
According to officials the last hope of finding him is at a sewer split chamber in Klipspruit.
The chamber situated near the Avalon Cemetery is the central point where all sewage and debris flows to.
