Girl, 4, falls in borewell, rescue ops on

Armymen engaged in a rescue operation to save Mahi, who fell into a borewell, in Manesar on Thursday. 	— PTI

Armymen engaged in a rescue operation to save Mahi, who fell into a borewell, in Manesar on Thursday. — PTI

Mahi, the four-year-old girl who fell into a 70 feet deep borewell in Haryana’s Manesar town was not responding to the calls of the rescue team on Thursday, even as authorities stepped up efforts to rescue her.

A huge drill machine, which is used for digging earth for fixing pillars for elevated Metro, was pressed into the service on Thursday to dig a parallel bore to the borewell in which Mahi is trapped. Mahi slipped into the borewell near Manesar’s Industrial Model Township (IMT) on National Highway-8 while the family was celebrating her birthday around 11 pm on Wednesday.
Deputy commissioner of police (south) Praveen Mehta said, “We have booked the plot owner Rohtash Singh, a resident of Najafgarh in New Delhi.”
Mahi is the daughter of Niraj Upadhyay, who hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district.
He is a supervisor at a factory in Manesar and lives in Kasan village with his wife Sonia, Mahi and a two-year old daughter.
Meanwhile, two other such abandoned borewells were found in the 30-metre area where Mahi is trapped. Army and National Security Guard personnel have been called in to rescue the child.
The area near the borewell being congested has increased the problems for the rescue team.
Deputy commissioner P.C. Meena was coordinating the rescue effort.
Army engineers under the leadership of Lt. Col. Avinash Tyagi were part of the operation.
Three JCB machines were pressed into service to dig from two parallel sides of the borewell. Pipes carrying oxygen were put in to help the child breathe. The girl child was talking to her father till 2 am. But fell silent thereafter, chief medical officer Praveen Garg said.

Comments

We have seen such incidents

We have seen such incidents being repeated. Last time it was the death of a boy called prince.
Ask the authorities they wl give 1000 excuses! Ask the government it wl give 2000 excuses!
Ask the child`s parents, they wl blame the police! If this country is not able to find a solution
to this persistant problem, whats the point in buying aircrafts and submarines? Such open borewell pits are a grave threat to children, just pass a damm law to punish the local authorities and owners of the land and borewell with culpable homicide..

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