Bhavnagar: A three-year-old girl who had fallen into an abandoned borewell at Vadod village in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat died on Saturday despite a relentless 23-hour rescue operation.
“The girl is dead now. Our rescue teams have tried hard to save her but as the debris of stones and soil have piled up on her she could not be saved,” Bhavnagar district collector P.K. Solanki said.
The girl Kalpana Koli, whose parents are daily wage labourers, fell into around 600-ft deep bo-rewell on a farmland at around 4 pm on Friday. Initially she was stuck at the depth of 28 feet, but during the rescue operation she slipped further at 35 feet, making it difficult for the rescuers to reach her.
“At last, the rescue teams were only able to see Kalpana’s hands and tried to pull her out, but as there was a possibility that her hands may get severed her father stopped us from carrying out any further rescue operation,” he said.
In another incident, a two-year-old boy died after falling into an over 30 feet deep borewell in the Hatigarh Chariali area of Guwahati on Saturday. The child identified as Afirul Islam was playing in a construction site when he slipped and fell into the well, sources said.
