By IANS,
Hyderabad : Efforts are on to rescue a two-year-old toddler, a day after he fell into a 35-feet deep borewell at a hamlet in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, authorities said Monday.
Dharavath Mahesh fell into the borewell at Chandrutanta hamlet in Polepally village of the district, about 90 km from Warangal town, Sunday evening.
A team from Singareni Collieries has joined police and fire services personnel in the rescue operation, being supervised by District Superintendent of Police Shahnawaz Qasim and District Collector N. Sridhar.
District revenue officials said the night vision camera lowered into the borewell late Sunday night captured pictures, indicating some movement.
A parallel pit has been dug and ambulance service personnel were pumping oxygen into the hole.
The boy’s father Dharavath Ravi told police that while the family was busy picking groundnuts in a field, the boy accidentally fell into the uncovered borewell which was left open after it failed to harvest any water.
This is not the first case of a child falling into an uncovered pit in the country.
A two-and-a-half-year-old child who fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Shajapur district in December 2009 was saved after rescue operations lasting more than 13 hours.
In November, a five-year-old boy fell into a 250-300 ft deep borewell in Jagatpura village near Jaipur. The army rescued him after two days.
In October 2008, the body of two-year-old Sonu, who fell into an open borewell in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district, was recovered after 96 hours.
Five-year-old Prince, who fell into a 53 feet deep and 1.5 feet wide shaft in Shahbad, Haryana in July 2006 was rescued after two days of rescue operations.