A big rescue mission was launched on Saturday after a boy fell into a pillar.
Rescuers attempted to pull the pillar after drilling around it on Sunday.
The Prime Minister ordered a rescue effort to save the boy.
A 10-year-old boy fell into the shaft of a hollow concrete pillar that's 115 feet deep and 10 inches wide, and national rescue agencies in Vietnam are rushing to save him.
The youngest of four siblings was stuck in the shaft at around 11:45 a.m. Tuoi Tre News reported on Saturday's time in the capital city of Vietnam.
A group of people went to a bridge construction site to look for scrap iron, when one of them fell into a concrete pile.
The witnesses said they heard a man cry for help after he fell in.
The director of the Department of Transport in the province said he couldn't understand how the man fell into the pillar.
Rescuers tried to pull the pillar out of the ground after drilling three spots for 20 hours on Sunday, but have so far been unsuccessful, the outlet wrote.
The pillar is too narrow for a rescuer to crawl into, according to a firefighter from a veteran rescue unit.
He said pulling the pillar up was the only solution.
According to Voice of Vietnam, the prime minister of Vietnam ordered the country's ministers for national defense, public security, transport, and construction to help with the rescue effort.
Rescuers got no response from the boy when they tried to find him with a camera on Monday. He was trapped for over two days.
By Tuesday, several hundred people, including firefighters and police officers, and excavators, cranes, and augers, had been dispatched to rescue the man.
The rescue of the 12 boys and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand last year is what inspired the national rescue. The group was trapped for 18 days, but were rescued between July 8 and 10 after Thailand deployed around 10,000 people.
The National Committee for Search and Rescue in Vietnam didn't reply to Insider's request for comment.
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