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Child in borewell: rescue work on even after 80 hours

National, Sun, 12 Oct 2008 IANS

Agra, Oct 12 (IANS) Many resigned to fate but others still hoped for a miracle as efforts to save a child, who fell in a deep borewell Thursday morning, continued at a village near here Sunday afternoon.

 

The boy had fallen into the narrow pit in Leharkapura village near Agra while playing at 10 a.m. Thursday. While rescue works were launched soon, there was no sign of life Saturday.

 

 

More than 80 hours after the child fell into the open borewell, an army rescue team was digging a new horizontal tunnel to reach out to him. Mounds of earth caved in thrice, delaying the operation work by at least 24 hours.

 

 

Officials at the site said in the afternoon that they were only a few feet away from Sonu even as the child's anxious parents, not keeping well, were praying for his safe recovery.

 

 

Oxygen was being pumped in the borewell and an ambulance van was kept ready to rush the child to hospital.

 

 

'For all you know it would require supernatural powers to survive in that death hole,' said an official.

 

 

But villagers gathered at the site were expecting a miracle.

 


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shankar mallipatna

October 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

so unfortunate and sad sonu falling down and caught in a 150 feet borewel - 90 feet from the top could not be rescued. army personnel must have worked hard and resorted to all possible methods and solutions to extricate the boy from the hole. the latest is that the boy is dead. such accidents involving uncovered and abandoned borewels are happening once too often these days - the last being one in karnataka. there also the victim could not be saved.

while it is difficult to comment on what could have been done in absence of details of rescue operation, the mishap while challenging cannot be without solutions. i would suggest the rescue details be made available to those who may, repeat may have offered a possible way out


 

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