New Delhi, Apr 4 (EFE).- Over 100 rescue personnel pulled out a two-year-old boy from a borewell in southern India on Thursday in an operation that lasted for over 16 hours.
Videos shared by local media showed rescuers lifting the child on a stretcher and carrying him up a muddy slope in Vijayapura district in the southern state of Karnataka.
“The boy is rescued, he is good, healthy, and has no injuries at all,” police officer Atin Kumar told EFE.
The toddler accidentally fell into an open borewell near his home on Wednesday evening and was rescued after about 20 hours.
The disaster rescue force, police personnel, health workers, and fire department were among the teams involved in the overnight operation in Vijaypura’s remote village, Lachyan.
The boy was stuck at a depth of 16 feet underground. The rescuers dug a pathway parallel to the borewell and installed tubes to ensure oxygen flow, police official Manjunath told EFE.
India has over 27 million open borewells, which often make news for trapping children.
The country saw a similar case in December when a five-year-old boy was trapped in a borewell at a depth of 20 feet in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
After over four hours of rescue operations, the boy was pulled out alive but died minutes later.
In June, a two-year-old girl was trapped over 320 feet underground, also in Madhya Pradesh. The rescue operation, which lasted for over 50 hours, could only recover the lifeless body of the minor from the borewell. EFE
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