2-YEAR-OLD STUCK FOR 110 HOURS IN BOREWELL DIES
PUNJAB ,( HINDU STAN TIMES )11 JUNE 2019 - A two-year-old child, who had fallen into a 150-foot-deep unused borewell in Punjab’s Sangrur, has been declared dead. He was pulled out of the borewell on Tuesday morning after a rescue operation of over 110 hours.
The child was rescued around 5:30 am by National Disaster Response Force personnel. “Fatehvir has been pulled out of the borewell and he is being taken to hospital in an ambulance,” Sagrur Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said at the time.
He was rushed to PGI Chandigarh where doctors declared him dead.
The toddler fell into the borewell in a field when he was playing in Bhagwanpura village and was stuck in the seven-inch wide borewell at a depth of 125 feet.
The borewell was covered with a cloth and the boy accidentally stepped on it. His mother tried to rescue him, but failed, officials said.