Boy Brought Out Of Borewell In MPs Guna After 16-Hr Rescue Ops, Rushed To Hospital

Efforts to rescue a 10-year-old boy trapped inside a 140-feet borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Guna concluded after 16 hours on Sunday, with the child being rushed to the hospital. A parallel 25-feet pit was dug, while rescuers used their hands to make a passage between the pit and the borewell.

Sumit Meena slipped into the open shaft of the borewell at around 5 pm on Saturday in Pipliya village while flying a kite and was trapped at a depth of 39 feet. The borewell did not strike water, and hence no casing had been put on it.

Raghogarh Congress MLA Jaivardhan Singh told PTI that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was close to reaching the boy, as oxygen continued to be pumped into the borewell. Amid plummeting temperatures, the rescue operation continued through the night.