Police search and rescue teams are in a desperate race against time to try to locate a two-year-old boy who has fallen down a 350ft deep well on Spain's Costa del Sol.
The toddler, named only as Yulen, plunged down the 15-inch wide hole, located on the property of some family friends, on Sunday afternoon as his parents prepared lunch nearby.
One relative has told police they heard the boy crying seconds after he vanished, but there have not been any signs of life from the child since.
The heartbreaking story has become all the more tragic today, as it has been revealed that Yulen's parents Vicky and Jose lost another child two years ago.
Race against time: This photo posted by local firefighters show the small 15in-wife hole the young boy fell down yesterday afternoon
Three-year-old Oliver, Yulen's older brother, died of a heart attack in May 2017, when the missing boy was just a few months old.
Emergency services have been working throughout the night at the country property near the Costa del Sol capital of Malaga to try to reach the boy.
A camera lowered into the well has failed to capture any sound or images indicating if the boy is dead or alive, although a blockage which is thought to be a small landslide has been spotted 250ft down.
A bag of sweets Yulen was carrying - which caught on the inside of the well wall when he fell - has also been discovered
The shaft, which is too narrow for an adult to enter, had been bored a month earlier during water prospection works and had not been covered or protected, local media are reporting.
Gamez says that rescuers are trying to avoid blocking the small diameter of the well, which may have water at the bottom, with falling soil as they search for the boy.
Yulen's parents, a couple in their twenties who live in the Malaga neighbourhood of El Palo, were enjoying a day in the countryside with friends who own a country property near the spot where the boy was last seen.
Tragedy: The two-year-old boy, named only as Yulen, fell down the deep well on a countryside property in Malaga, Spain's Costa del Sol while his parents were having lunch nearby
Mission: More than 100 firefighters and emergency workers in southern Spain are searching for the two-year-old
They were preparing Sunday lunch in an area near a pre-historic burial ground known as Cerro de la Corona, a 20-minute drive from their home, when their son vanished at around 2pm yesterday.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard, who said the information about the circumstances of the youngster's disappearance had come from the family, told local press: 'The operation is going to continue as long as is necessary.
'The boy's father and a local emergency services
