More borewell horror! 10-year-old trapped in Madhya Pradesh
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Bhopal: In a fresh case of a borewell accident, a 10-year-old boy remains trapped for the second day after he fell into a 14—foot borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district. This happened when a three-year-old girl also remained in a borewell in Rajasthan for the 7th day on Sunday while rescue teams were putting in their maximum efforts.
In Guna, rescuers dug a parallel pit and used their hands to make a passage between the pit and borewell to reach the boy, according to Congress MLA Jaivardhan Singh’s account with the news agency PTI.
A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was close to reaching the boy, he said, adding that oxygen was being pumped into the borewell.
Singh said the operation continued through the night to rescue Sumit Meena, who slipped into the open shaft of the borewell at around 5 pm on Saturday in Pipliya village under Raghogarh assembly segment, located 50 km from the Guna district headquarters.
The boy was trapped at a depth of 39 feet. The borewell is around 140 feet deep, Guna Collector Satendra Singh said on Saturday.
The borewell did not strike water, and hence, no casing had been put on it, the collector said.
The NDRF team reached there from Bhopal late Saturday evening and was leading the rescue operation.
The boy's family members panicked on Saturday evening when they had not seen him for a long time.
A search was carried out, and then they realised he had fallen into the borewell, a local person said.
Earlier this month, a five-year-old boy was pulled out of a borewell after 57 hours of him trapped there in Rajasthan's Dausa, but he was declared dead after the rescue.