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Maharashtra: Five-year-old boy who fell into borewell pulled out useless

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By PTI

PUNE: A rescue operation of not less than 9 hours to avoid wasting a five-year-old boy who fell right into a borewell in a village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district proved futile as he was pulled out useless within the wee hours of Tuesday, officers mentioned.

The deceased, Sagar Barela, was the son of a sugarcane employee who hailed from Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh.

The baby fell into the borewell in Kopardi village underneath Karjat tehsil, round 125 km from Pune metropolis, at round 5 PM on Monday, shortly after he bought down from a bullock cart, a police official mentioned.

Personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), together with native police and district administration personnel, launched an operation to rescue him. “The boy was pulled out dead from the borewell at around 2 AM on Tuesday,” a police official mentioned.

Officials had mentioned the boy was trapped at a depth of 15 toes within the defunct borewell.

Karjat-Jamkhed MLA Rohit Pawar mentioned farmers ought to take care to correctly cowl borewells of their fields.

“The incident of the death of a labourer’s child after falling into a borewell in my constituency is very unfortunate. He could not be saved despite best efforts. But to avoid such incidents, farmers should take care to properly cover the bore wells in their fields,” Pawar tweeted.

PUNE: A rescue operation of not less than 9 hours to avoid wasting a five-year-old boy who fell right into a borewell in a village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district proved futile as he was pulled out useless within the wee hours of Tuesday, officers mentioned.

The deceased, Sagar Barela, was the son of a sugarcane employee who hailed from Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh.

The baby fell into the borewell in Kopardi village underneath Karjat tehsil, round 125 km from Pune metropolis, at round 5 PM on Monday, shortly after he bought down from a bullock cart, a police official mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), together with native police and district administration personnel, launched an operation to rescue him. “The boy was pulled out dead from the borewell at around 2 AM on Tuesday,” a police official mentioned.

Officials had mentioned the boy was trapped at a depth of 15 toes within the defunct borewell.

Karjat-Jamkhed MLA Rohit Pawar mentioned farmers ought to take care to correctly cowl borewells of their fields.

“The incident of the death of a labourer’s child after falling into a borewell in my constituency is very unfortunate. He could not be saved despite best efforts. But to avoid such incidents, farmers should take care to properly cover the bore wells in their fields,” Pawar tweeted.