Madhya Pradesh: Rescue operation failed for 52 consecutive hours, girl died after falling into tube well
Source: The New Indian Express
Sehore: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl died after falling into a 300-foot borewell in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh. Army, NDRF, SDERF personnel, heavy machinery and robotic team were involved in the operation for more than 50 consecutive hours. However, the girl did not survive.
The girl who fell into a 300 feet borewell of Mungavali village around 1 am on Tuesday morning was rescued at 5:30 pm on Thursday and was taken to the district hospital in an ambulance. However, officials said that she died there.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday that due to the vibration of the machinery used in the rescue operation, the girl Srishti, who was initially stuck at 40 feet, fell down 100 feet, while an official at the spot said that the girl fell 134 feet deep before being rescued.
Personnel from many agencies, including the army, scrambled to save the girl. She was given oxygen through a tube. On Thursday morning, a team of robotic experts from Gujarat conducted an operation to rescue the girl. The robot was lowered into a borewell to collect information about the girl’s condition. But all these efforts failed. With the death of the girl, the incident has once again brought to the fore the dangers posed by open tube wells.
A two-year-old girl fell into a narrow borewell and got stuck 20 feet deep in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district on Saturday. Despite intensive rescue efforts for 19 hours, she died.
