Bhopal: A 22-hour-long rescue operation involving BSF and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel could not save a three-year-old boy who fell into a 150-ft deep bore well in an agriculture field in a Madhya Pradesh village on Friday evening.
Abhay Pachouri, resident of Sultanpur Kheria village under Dabra tehsil in Gwalior district was found dead after he was brought out of the long narrow pit on Saturday afternoon.
He fell into the bore well and got stuck at 25 ft depth while returning home along with his grandmother and elder sister on Friday evening, officials said.
“The toddler was retrieved from the bore well after an uninterrupted rescue operation that ended at around 6 in the evening on Saturday and immediately rushed to the nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” Gwalior district collector Sanjay Goel said.
“Preliminary examinations suggest that the boy died of asphyxiation,” he added. He, however, ruled out the possibility of snake bite being cause of death of the kid. “However, exact cause of the death could be ascertained only by post-mortem tests”, he added. There were apprehensions that poisonous snakes inhibiting the bore well might have stung the boy killing him before he was rescued.
