New Delhi: The 7-year-old boy who had fallen right into a 60-foot-deep borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district, sadly, died on Wednesday (March 15). The little one was rescued nearly 24 hours after he fell inside however couldn’t be saved. “Doctors declared him dead after examination,” Vidisha Collector Uma Shankar Bhargava informed reporters as quoted by PTI.
The boy fell into the 60-foot-deep borewell on Tuesday round 11 am and was caught at a depth of 43 toes. Rescue operations have been ongoing since Tuesday and a parallel pit was dug with JCB machines to avoid wasting the kid. But the boy was declared useless by docs at a authorities hospital in Lateri city.
7 yr previous little one had fallen in Lokesh borewell! 24 hour rescue operation by NDRF & SDRF took the kid out of the borewell! however tragic hospital little one died pic.twitter.com/jsIruOijxq
— Kalu Singh Chouhan (@kscChouhan) March 15, 2023
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh to the kin of the deceased as per the collector.
How did he fall inside?
The boy recognized as Lokesh Ahirwar was enjoying when he by chance fell into the slim gap at Kherkhedi Pathar village below Lateri tehsil within the district, the official mentioned as quoted by PTI. The villagers quickly alerted the authorities and an in depth rescue operation started to avoid wasting the kid. An oxygen pipe was lowered into the borewell and the rescuers have been in a position to observe the boy whereas he was trapped by a night-vision gadget.Â
An identical case was reported in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district when a 5-year-old boy fell right into a borewell on Tuesday. But he too was declared useless and could not be saved. The incidence of borewell-related deaths amongst kids is a regarding difficulty.
