Rescue teams trying to reach the boy trapped inside a well in Spain are expected to start drilling a new vertical tunnel today.

Officials announced late last night that they were just 10 feet away from digging out an 82ft deep chunk in the hillside and creating a platform from which powerful drills will start the job of creating the new vertical tunnel running parallel to the one Julen Rosello has spent nearly a week in.

Rescuers hope the drilling will take around 15 hours – although the race against time to reach the youngster as soon as possible means proper surveys have not been carried out and rock underground could cause further delays.

One of the drilling machines, described as the most powerful in Spain, was taken off a job on a motorway near Madrid so it could be used in the rescue operation.

Stage three of the operation will involve mine rescue experts flown in from northern Spain earlier this week digging out a 13-foot-long horizontal tunnel by hand from the point the drills reach to the 10-inch-wide borehole Julen is in.

The miners are expected to start their dig around 250ft down the new tunnel, the same depth as a blockage of sand, earth and rocks Julen is thought to be trapped in or under.

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