Man falls into borewell, dies; body retrieved
An unidentified person died after falling into a 40feet-deep and 1.5-feet-wide borewell pit located inside a room at the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage treatment plant in the Keshopur Mandi area on the dead night of Sunday.
The body was pulled out after a nearly 14-hour-long operation on Sunday, the police said adding that the man is yet to be identified. Sources said that the borewell is in a locked room and is abandoned.
Information about the man falling into the borewell at the DJB plant in west Delhi’s Keshopur Mandi area was received at around 1 am. The rescue efforts were led by teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Delhi Fire Services (DFS). As part of the rescue operation, the NDRF had dug another well parallel to the borewell into which the man had fallen.
Five fire tenders were immediately pressed into service.
For more than 8 hours, the rescue agency tried different methods to pull up the man from the borewell but they could not succeed.
However, after 13 hours of operation, the rescue teams pulled out the body of the man. He was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead.
A senior police officer said the person was brought out from the borewell dead. “It appears that he was aged between 25 and 35 years. Efforts are being made to identify him,” he said. According to government officials, the borewell was inside a locked room. "So whoever entered the borewell room would have done so by breaking the lock and the door,” an official said.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal shared the news of the man’s death in a post on X and thanked the NDRF for its rescue operation.