Morocco, Syria, Brazil.

Today's three stories you should know.

Morocco

Truly tragic update to yesterday’s story about efforts to rescue a five-year boy who had fallen down a well in Morocco. Rayan Oram was finally pulled from the well after a painstaking five-day operation but it was announced shortly afterwards that he had died, prompting an outpouring of sorrow and grief across Morocco and North Africa. People have been using Twitter to express their condolences to Rayan’s family and their thanks to the team of rescuers who attempted to save him. One local man, well-digging expert Ali Sahraw, spent hours digging with just his bare hands.

More from Al Jazeera here.

Syria

Last month’s attack by ISIS on a prison in northeastern Syria has thrown a spotlight on the fact that children are being held there in what the UN children’s agency UNICEF calls “incredibly precarious” conditions. The jail, in the city of Hassakeh, houses more than 3,000 inmates, of which about 600 are children. “Children should never be in detention due to association with armed groups,” Bo Viktor Nylund, UNICEF’s Syria representative, said in a statement. “Children associated with and recruited by armed groups should always be treated as victims of conflict.”

More from AP here.

Brazil

Thousands have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil to protest the particularly brutal murder of a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe, 23, was brutally bludgeoned to death by a group of men at the beachside bar where he worked, in what is being reported as a racist murder. Many Brazilians have pointed the finger at President Jair Bolsonaro who they say has prompted an uptick in racist attacks with his frequent derogatory statements about Black and indigenous Brazilians. Bolsonaro has yet to comment on the killing.

More from the Guardian here.