A three-year-old boy who had fallen into a 150-foot deep borewell in a village near Gwalior died on Saturday. Doctors said that he died due to suffocation after falling into the borewell,” Gwalior Collector Dr Sanjay Goyal said. Eyewitnesses claimed that he fell into the borewell while returning home along with his grandmother and elder sister. The Collector informed that the boy was taken out after nearly 22 hours of rescue oepration. The boy had got stuck at the depth of nearly 25 feet in the borewell in an agriculture field in the village, after he fell into it last evening, Inspector General (IG) Gwalior, Adarsh Katiyar said.

Source: The Hindu July 23, 2016 07:50 UTC