5-Yr-Old Dies After Falling Into 50 ft Deep Borewell in Haryana

The girl fell in the borewell belonging to her family while playing in the fields on Sunday, a police official said.

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A five-year-old girl, who fell into a 50-feet deep borewell in Harsinghpura village in Haryana's Karnal district, died on Monday, 4 November.

Earlier on Monday, the rescue operations to pull her out were underway.

The girl fell in the borewell belonging to her family while playing in the fields on Sunday in Gharaunda area, a police official cited by PTI said.

After her family realised that she was missing, they had launched a search for the child, but then found that she had fallen into the borewell, he said.

The district administration and the police were informed, and a rescue operation was launched. Later, the NDRF was also informed, the official said.

Oxygen was supplied inside the borewell and the rescuers had used a camera to check on the child through which they saw her foot. An audio recording of her parents’ voice was also played to give her a sense of security, the police had said, according to PTI. 

Earlier in July, two-year-old Fatehvir Singh, was pulled out dead from a 150-foot deep borewell shaft in Punjab's Sangrur district after an unsuccessful rescue operation which lasted over four days.  In March, an 18-month old boy was rescued from a borewell in Haryana's Hisar district, two days after he had fallen into it.

In 2006, a massive operation was launched to rescue five-year-old Prince, who had fallen into a borewell in a village in Kurukshetra. He was pulled out safely nearly 48 hours later.

(With inputs from PTI and ANI.)