After over four days of rescue operations, a 6-year-old boy who fell into an 80-metre-deep (260 foot) well in Hebei Province on Sunday has finally been found dead.

Confirming the incident, Wu Sujie, a rescue official who had been on location since the incident transpired, said "the boy was found without life."

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Further investigations are yet to be conducted to determine whether he died from the fall or other factors like suffocation or starvation led to his demise.

The boy fell into the well on Sunday when he was playing with his younger sister while his father was harvesting at their farm.

The father had used the social networking app "WeChat" to ask for assistance.

The incident occurred in Lixian County, Baoding City at around 11 a.m. Many people turned up in the area to assist in the resue operation.

Rescuers had used every possible method available to speed up the operations.

Hundreds of rescuers with excavators worked around the clock to find the child.

Despite the fact that on the third day of the search there were still no signs of life, rescuers continued to pump oxygen into the well in hopes of finding him alive.

The rescuers have warned that this is not the only abandoned well in the region. They also added that there was no warning sign around it or any of the other wells.

"This is one incident, but if it doesn't get taken care of we fear that such incidents will appear again in the future," an unnamed official said.

Tagschina, search and rescue operations, Hebei Province