On 1 February 2022, five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram (Berber languages: ⵕⴰⵢⴰⵏ ⴰⵡⵕⴰⵎ; Arabic: ريان أورام) fell into a 32-metre (105 ft) dry well in Ighran village in Tamorot commune, Chefchaouen Province, Morocco.

This plant requires copious amounts of water to grow, especially the imported hybrid varieties, as opposed to the local kif hashish, whose cultivation can rely solely on rainwater.

[5] While playing outside on 1 February 2022,[6] five-year-old Rayan Aourram fell into a dry well in the village of Ighran in Chefchaouen Province, Morocco.

[6] Diggers reached Aourram's level on 4 February, and began the more delicate task of digging horizontally with hand tools and techniques to avoid vibrating the surrounding soil.

[15] On 5 February, the fourth day since Aourram's fall, a rock blocking the tunnel caused a three-hour delay to the rescue attempt.

[21] Hashtags including #SaveRayan and its Arabic equivalent (#أنقذوا_ريان) became trending in Morocco, Algeria, and France, where a large North African diaspora lives.

[10] A parallel was drawn with the death of Julen Roselló, a two-year old Spanish boy who died when he fell into and became trapped in a 100-metre (330 ft) well in 2019.