18-month-old boy rescued from borewell after 48 hours in Hisar
HISAR:AN 18-month-old boy who fell into a 60-ft deep borewell on Wednesday evening in Haryana’s Hisar district was rescued on Friday. Hisar DC Ashok Kumar Meena said the toddler’s health was fine after he was rescued from borewell, where he was trapped for around 48 hours.
Indian Army and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel and local authorities were involved in the rescue operation in Balsamand village after Nadeem Khan fell into the borewell near his house while playing on Wednesday evening.
A GPS tracker had been sent inside the borewell to track the exact location of the child. As soon as the team got the location, the process to rescue the child was expedited. Closed-circuit television or CCTV cameras lowered into the well showed the boy sitting with his back to screen.
Sources said that the NDRF team and army personnel dug another 70-ft hole about 17-ft away from the main borewell where the child fell. Earthmovers and tractors have been pressed into service as two ambulances could be seen near the site.
“On Wednesday, it was about 5.15 pm when the child was playing and he suddenly fell inside the borewell,” a local resident and panch of village Khursheed Ahmed said. His parents, who were also near the spot, informed the village sarpanch who then contacted the police and local administration.
Meena said legal action will be taken against the person who dug the borewell without taking permission from the concerned department. A massive operation was launched in 2006 to rescue five-year-old Prince, who had fallen into a borewell in a village in Kurukshetra. He was pulled out safely after nearly 48 hours.