5-year-old falls into borewell in Rajasthan, dies

A ive-year-old boy had slipped into an over 40-feet-deep borewell in Sawai Madhopur district in Rajasthan. The minor was declared dead after 15 hours of rescue operation on Wednesday, police said.

Aman was playing with the other kids in the area, when he accidentally slipped into the open borewell at around 5pm on Tuesday in the Malarna Dungar village, a police oficer said.

“As soon as we got news, the district administration started efforts to rescue the boy,” Bijendra Singh, station in-charge, Malarana Police Station told IANS.

Earth moving and other machines were pressed into service. Even a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was called, Singh said.

The boy was inally pulled out of the borewell at around 7.30am on Wednesday. He was stuck at 40-feet below the ground.

He was immediately rushed to a hospital, where they declared him dead, the oficer said.

TREMORS

Mild tremors were felt in Jubilee Hills and surrounding areas in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

The tremors were experienced in Jubilee Hills, KBR Park, parts of Banjara Hills, Rahmat Nagar and Borabanda around 8.50am. However, scientists at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) said that there was nothing to worry about as these were ultra-micro tremors caused by an increase in groundwater. The magnitude was 0.5 on the Richter scale.

Tremors are not new to these parts of Hyderabad. Last month, Borabanda had experienced as many as 16 microtremors in a span of 13 hours. Two seismographic stations of NGRI had recorded these micro-tremors.