The 14-month-old child, who had fallen in a borewell, was taken out as dead on Thursday night. The Army had joined the rescue operation on Thursday afternoon only.
The child Krishna lodhi who had accidentally fallen into the 100-feet dry borewell at lidhora village under Bhagwa police station in Chhatarpur district on Wednesday evening while playing in an agriculture field.
Sources said the Army operation was also hit a roadblock as a rock came in between after 25 feet of digging of the parallel pit. The Army rescuers were trying to break the rock to get access to the trapped boy.
The child was finally taken out from the borewell and immediately rushed to the nearby Bada Malehra hospital, where he was declared dead. The doctors found that the child had died around three hours ago.
Sub-divisional magistrate Ravindra Choukse while talking to The Pioneer said the incident took place when Krishna, son of one Ramprasad lodhi went to a field with his aunt to bring some crops but accidentally fell into the borewell while he was playing around it last evening.
The woman traced the child after hearing the sound of crying from inside the borewell, he added.
Villagers informed the administration and rescue operation began last night. An excavator is being used to dig a parallel whole to rescue the trapped child, who is still alive and efforts are on to bring him out from the borewell safely, the sources said.
Choukse said a parallel pit was dug by pressing JCB machines into the job, but the operation hit a roadblock due to the presence of a large stone which rescuers tried to break for long.
The borewell was apparently dug about two months back, but when no water was found in it, the field owner abandoned it. The field belongs to a labourer, who is presently not in the village, a local resident said.