A four-year-old boy was rescued today from a 200-feet borewell in Mandanwan village, nearly 30 hours after he slipped into it, a NDRF official said.
Yesterday, Sunil More, son of a labourer, accidentally fell into the borewell in the village near Shirur, while he was playing.
The rescue operations, conducted by a team comprising 27 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, fire brigade and police officials, lasted for over 30 hours as they rescued the boy Sunil at around 7.45 PM
"Sunil More is unconscious, but his pulse is on and he is being taken to the hospital," Deputy Commandant Sacchidanand Gawade of NDRF's 5th battalion, said.
"We had to dig a parallel hole to the borewell. During the exercise, the rescue team had to face a daunting task as a solid rock was found underneath and it led to the delay," he said.
According to Gawade, after digging vertical at around 22 feet, the rescuing team dug horizontally to reach to the boy, who was stuck at 20 feet into borewell and eventually he was pulled out.
"Even though, his lower part of the body was freed from the horizontal tunnel, the rescue team had faced hardships while freeing his upper part of the body as his neck was trapped against a rock," he explained.
The oxygen was being pumped inside the hole to make sure that Sunil did not face any difficulty while breathing.
