Emergency operations were continuing to save the life of a ten-year-old boy after he fell into a defunct borewell in the Janjali area of Raghogarh in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.
Rescue teams from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) said the boy was trapped at a depth of 25 feet. A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team has also been requisitioned from the state capital to aid the rescue operation.
The boy, Sumit Meena (10), a resident of Pipaliya village, went to his family’s fields around 4 PM. His parents launched a search after he did not return home for several hours.
Fearing the worst, the parents looked into the borewell and found him stuck in the narrow hole in the ground, with only his head visible.
Villagers alerted the police, and a subsequent rescue operation was launched, with the administration pressing excavators into service to dig a parallel hole to rescue the child.
Raghogarh Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Vikas Kumar Anand remained present to oversee the rescue operation. He expressed optimism about the success of the rescue mission.
