India: 6-year-old boy dies in Rewa, MP, after falling into 70-foot borewell while playing
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The incident happened in Manika village, near the Uttar Pradesh border, around 3 pm on Friday (April 12) while the child was playing near the open borewell.
Despite the joint efforts of multiple agencies to rescue him, the six-year-old boy who fell into an open borewell in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh two days ago passed away on Sunday (April 14).
The incident happened in Manika village, near the Uttar Pradesh border, around 3 pm on Friday. The child was playing near the open borewell when he fell in it. Officials stated that he got trapped about 40 feet deep inside the borewell.
The State Disaster Emergency Response Force, National Disaster Response, and local administration worked together to rescue the boy from the borewell. They provided oxygen into the 70-foot-deep borewell and dug parallel pits to reach him.
“As soon as we received information, the station in charge and SDM reached the spot…All senior officials are present on the spot and rescue work is going on. Two JCBs, a team of cameramen, and an SDRF team are carrying out the rescue. An NDRF team was also dispatched from Varanasi,” Additional Superintendent of Police Anil Sonkar told reporters.
The police tried using a CCTV camera to check on the boy, but they couldn’t reach him because of an obstruction. Rewa collector Pratibha Pal shared a video on X, showing officials using the camera to locate the boy.
Pal stated that the child was found on Sunday after a 40-hour rescue operation.
“The boy was located at around 8 am. We made all efforts but could not save the child as the borewell was too narrow,” she told reporters.
Earlier this month, in an unrelated incident, a two-year-old boy was safely rescued after falling into a borewell in Lachayan village of Indi taluk in Karnataka’s Vijayapura.
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The incident took place when the child, identified as Satvik, stumbled into the uncovered borewell while playing nearby. The child was rescued following a 20-hour rescue operation.
(With inputs from agencies)
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