: After a nine and half hour effort by rescue personnel, the six-year-old girl who fell into an open borewell in a village in Tiruvannamalai district today was taken out and rushed to a government hospital in nearby Arni.
The unconscious child Devi was rescued with a specially procured 'arm like device' at 6.15 PM and rushed to hospital in an ambulance,accompanied by a team of doctors, who administered first aid.
Officials refused to divulge the child's health status.
Earlier today, Devi accidentally fell into the 400-feet borewell when she came to the site by 7.45 AM along with her mother, a farm labourer.
V Ramasamy, Divisional officer, Fire and Rescue Service Department, Tiruvannamalai, told PTI from the rocky rescue operations site that FRSD officials supplied oxygen to the child, stuck at 20 feet and that she was able to talk.
About 30 FRSD personnel, with the aid of backhoe loaders dug a well like opening close to the borewell to bring her out.
Top district officials, including Collector A Gnanasekaran and, Superintendent of Police J Mutharasi supervised the rescue efforts.
