10-year-old rescued from well after 16-hour rescue operation dies in Madhya Pradesh

BHOPAL: A 10-year-old boy, who was pulled from a 140-feet well in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district after a 16-hour rescue operation, was declared dead by doctors, officials said.

The boy, Sumit Meena, slipped into the open borewell around 5 pm on Saturday in Pipliya village under Raghogarh assembly segment, located 50 km from Guna district headquarters.

He was taken out around 9:30 a.m. Sunday, officials said.

Rescuers worked through the night and dug a parallel pit to reach the boy through a passage between the pit and the well, Raghogarh Congress MP Jaivardhan Singh said. PTI on the phone from the spot.

The boy was trapped 39 feet deep in the borewell, which is about 140 feet deep, Guna Collector Satendra Singh said on Saturday.

The borehole did not hit water and therefore no casing was put on it, he said.

The NDRF team reached there from Bhopal late on Saturday evening and helped in the operation.

The boy’s family members panicked on Saturday night when they had not seen him for a long time.

A search was conducted and then they realized that it had fallen into the well, a local said.