The four-year-old girl Mahi, who fell into a 70-foot deep borewell in Manesar town here, could not be taken out even after hours of marathon efforts by the Army’s rescue team, said an official on Friday.
“The big bore machine from Rapid Metro achieved its target (to dig parallel 75-feet tunnel) early on Friday,” said a senior officer.
“The gap between both the bores is about 8-feet. While digging a tunnel to reach the target (Mahi), from the new bore to borewell, a big piece of hill stone came in way,” the officer added.
Mahi slipped into a borewell near Manesar’s Industrial Model Township (IMT) on NH-8, when her family was celebrating her birthday around 11 pm Wednesday. Army’s 3 engineer regiment from Delhi and National Security Guard personnel have taken the task of rescuing the child. According to an official, the supply of oxygen was provided through a pipe to the child as well as to the personnel inside the tunnel.
The police has booked the plot owner Rohtash Singh, a resident of Najafgarh, New Delhi, but he could not be arrested despite several raids, said Manesar station house officer Omprakash.