Moroccan football star offers to buy family of 'little Rayan' a new house

Moroccan striker Abdel Razzaq Hamdallah has announced that he will gift a "fully furnished house" to the heartbroken family of the Moroccan boy who died at the bottom of a well outside his house following a five-day rescue operation.

Hamdallah, 31, took to his Instagram page to offer condolences to the family of the boy, announcing that "in the name of all Moroccans" he would buy them a new house.

The striker, who plays for the Saudi-based Al-Ittihad Club, urged "actors, singers and athletes" to do what they can to help the family.

 

 

 

 

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Rayan Awram fell down the 32-metre deep well on Tuesday afternoon while playing outside his parents' house in the village of Ighran, close to the city of Chefchaouen in Morocco.

The ordeal of "little Rayan" gained global attention and sparked an outpouring of sympathy, with the Arabic Twitter hashtag #SaveRayan trending.

Throughout the major digging operation to extricate him from the bottom of the well shaft, Moroccan authorities had cautioned that they did not know whether the boy was alive. 

The race against time to rescue Rayan was followed live across the world until a tragic conclusion was announced late on Saturday by Morocco's royal cabinet confirming that Rayan was found dead.

"We have gone through five very remote days and our hearts were snatched from us, Moroccans, all Arabs and Muslims, and even the whole world," Hamdallah wrote.

"We praised and thanked God for everything that Rayan took, and he was more merciful to us and more deserving of it than us," he added.

"With this affliction, I extend my deepest condolences to Rayan's family, and I ask God to grant them patience and solace."