MUMBAI: In the Ahmednagar area of Maharashtra, a five-year-old kid drowned after falling down a borewell that was 15 feet deep.
Even after late-night rescue efforts, the young boy could not be saved. The area was prepared with an ambulance and other medical equipment. The kid, according to officials, apparently suffocated to death before he could be saved.
The child entered the borewell on Monday at 4 p.m., according to NDRF authorities.
"The youngster was stranded 15 feet below the surface. An ambulance and other medical equipment were on standby at the scene, and a rescue operation was underway," authorities told media.
The effort to rescue the youngster from the borewell was carried out by a team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), local law enforcement, and district administration staff in Kopardi village, Karjat tehsil, around 125 kilometres from Pune city. The youngster, the son of a sugarcane worker, may have accidentally fallen into the abandoned borewell while playing, according to the authorities.
In Madhya Pradesh's Betul, an eight-year-old child named Tanmay Sahu passed away after spending more than 65 hours trapped in a borewell. The youngster was playing at a farm on December 6 when he plunged 400 feet down the borewell.
He eventually died of "suffocation" after becoming trapped 15 feet below in the borewell. The mother of the youngster claimed, "He fell into the borewell, and my 12-year-old daughter observed it and told me about it. We sped right over to the area. We asked while listening to his voice and noticing that he was breathing. On December 6, the rescue effort got under way at 6 o'clock in the evening”
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