Child trapped in borewell declared dead after 22-hour operation in MP
Bhopal, April 11 -- A two-year-old boy who fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district, died of drowning on Friday, officials said, adding that the child was declared dead after a 22-hour rescue operation to pull him out.
According to officials, the child, Bhagirath Dewasi, had slipped into a 200-foot-deep borewell around 7.30pm on Thursday in Jhalaria village under Badnagar tehsil. After a massive rescue operation by joint teams of the SDRF and NDRF, his body was retrieved using iron rods, ropes, and specialized borewell machinery.
Ujjain superintendent of police Pradeep Mishra confirmed that the body was transported from the village to the government hospital in Badnagar. He said, "Strict action will be taken following an inv...
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