7-year-old dies after rescue from Madhya Pradesh borewell
In a tragic incident, a seven-year-old boy died after being rescued from a borewell in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, reports said on Wednesday.
Talking to newsmen, Vidisha Collector Uma Shankar Bhargava said the child who was rescued nearly 24 hours after he fell into a deep borewell, was rushed to a government hospital Lateri town, 14 kms from district headquarters, where doctors declared him dead after examination.
According to officials, the now-deceased boy, identified as seven-year-old Lokesh Ahirwar, had fallen into a 60-foot-deep borewell while playing in his native Kherkhedi Pathar village under Lateri tehsil on Tuesday morning at around 11 am and was stuck at a depth of 43 feet.
Sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Harshal Choudhary said that villagers alerted the authorities and rescued rushed to spot to pull out the child.
He said that a parallel pit was dug with the help of JCB machines (earthmovers) to pull out the child from the borewell and an oxygen pipe was lowered into the deep hole while rescuers kept an eye on the trapped boy through a night-vision device.
The official added that National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel were also called in to assist in the rescue operations.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced a relief of Rs 4 lakh to the deceased boy’s family.
In a similar incident, a 5-year-old boy was declared dead after he was rescued from a borewell after a 9-hour operation in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district on Tuesday.
The deceased boy, identified as Sagar Barela, son of a sugarcane worker hailing Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur, had fallen into a borewell in in Kopardi village under Karjat tehsil, around 125 km from Pune city, at around 5 pm on Monday, shortly after getting down from a bullock cart.
The boy was rescued after a joint 9-hour operation by NDRF personnel, local police and district administration personnel, but was declared dead upon being pulled out at around 2 am on Tuesday.
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