Stuck in an over 120-foot deep borewell for 109 hours, a two-year-old infant was declared dead after being rescued Tuesday morning in Sangrur district. With his hands clamped with a rope, Fatehveer Singh was brought out after the operation to rescue him through a parallel tunnel dug up closeby failed. He was flown to PGI Chandigarh in an air ambulance, where he was declared dead. AdvertisingAlong with the NDRF, about 200 volunteers of Green Force of Dera Sacha Sauda had also been roped in to dig parallel borewell manually. Fatehveer fell into the unused borewell in his father’s field near their house at around 4.00 pm Thursday.

Source: Indian Express June 11, 2019 02:09 UTC