Dhaka, Dec. 11 -- A two-year-old boy slipped into an abandoned deep tube-well shaft roughly 30feet deep in a field in Tanore upazila of Rajshahi on Wednesday that triggered frantic rescue efforts by firefighters and villagers.

The child, named Shwadhin, is the son of Rakib Uddin and Runa Khatun from Koel Hat Purbo Para village in Panchandar union, police reported.

ccording to local witnesses and officials, a trolley carrying earth had sunk when one of its tyres went deep into the ground at midday.

Curious, Rakib and his wife, carrying Shwadhin in her arms, went over to inspect the stuck trolley. Around 1:00 pm the boy got down from his mother's lap and started wandering nearby - and in a moment his foot slipped and he fell into the nar...