Mourners stood in the remote forested hills to farewell five-year-old Rayan Awram, who died after being trapped in a well for days

Huge crowds laid to rest Rayan Awram, a five-year-old Moroccan boy who spent four days trapped down a well and sparked a rescue operation that gripped the world but ended in tragedy.

Hundreds stood to mourn in a cemetery in the remote forested hills of the northern Chefchaouen region on Monday, a few kilometres (miles) from the site of the accident, as an imam read funeral prayers.

Rescuers failed to save a boy who fell into a well in northern Morocco. The boy's body was recovered from the well late on Saturday. Workers with mechanical diggers had worked round the clock to try to rescue five-year-old Rayan after he fell into a well 32 metres (105ft) deep in the hills near Chefchaouen on Tuesday.

• Rescue workers in Morocco edge closer to boy trapped in well
  

King hails efforts to rescue Rayan Awram, aged five, who was trapped for four days after falling into the well in his village of Ighara

A five-year-old boy in Morocco who was trapped for four days in a deep well, and whose plight captivated residents of the north African kingdom, has died, the royal palace has said.

The boy, Rayan Awram, fell 32 metres (100ft) down the empty shaft in his home village of Ighrane on Tuesday afternoon. Since then, every detail of the complex and dangerous mission to reach him has garnered international headlines and an outpouring of sympathy online, with the Arabic version of the hashtag #SaveRayan going viral.