Madhya Pradesh: 2.5-Year-Old Pulled Out From 300-Feet Deep Borewell Declared Dead At Hospital

A two-and-half-year-old girl, who fell into a borewell in Sehore in Madhya Pradesh, passed away after being rescued from a depth of 100 feet on Tuesday evening, officials said. The rescue operation lasted more than 50 hours and saw a robotic team joining personnel from the Army, NDRF, SDERF and earth movers.

The girl, named Srishti, fell into the borewell around 1 pm on Tuesday.

A police official said on the condition of anonymity that the minor had already died in the borewell and when she was pulled out, her body was found decomposing. The victim's body was sent for post-mortem, he said. The girl - Srishti - had fallen into the 300-foot borewell in Mungavali village around 1 pm on Tuesday. She was pulled out at 5.30 pm on Thursday and was rushed to the district hospital in an ambulance for a check up, another official said.She was initially stuck at the depth of about 40 feet in the borewell, but due to vibrations caused by machines engaged in the rescue operation, she slid down further to about 100 feet, making the task more difficult, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday.

An official on Thursday said she had further slipped to the depth of around 135 feet.

An Army team also joined the rescue operation, while teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) have already been working to rescue the girl, officials said.

A team of robotic experts also joined the operation on Thursday morning to rescue the girl, they said.

On Saturday, a two-year-old girl slipped into a narrow borewell in Gujarat's Jamnagar district and got stuck at a depth of 20-feet. She died despite hectic rescue efforts by multiple agencies for 19 hours, an official earlier said.

In 2009, the Supreme Court issued guidelines for preventing fatal accidents of children falling into abandoned borewells.

The revised guidelines issued by the court in 2010 included setting up barbed wire fencing around the well during construction, using steel plate covers fixed with bolts over the well assembly and filling up of borewells from the bottom to the ground level.