Thursday, December 12, 2024 - A five-year-old boy was declared dead after being pulled out of a 150ft-borewell in western India following a 56-hour rescue operation.
Aryan Meena, who lived in the Dausa district
of Rajasthan state, was trapped in the narrow well for three days
after falling into it while playing on Monday afternoon, Dec. 9.
The boy, wearing pants and a t-shirt, had to endure
plummeting winter temperatures inside the well as well as hunger and thirst.
Earlier, there were hopes he could be rescued alive.
Rescuers raced against time to save the five-year-old boy
after he had been trapped for 2 days at the bottom of a 175ft well in India.
The boy, named only as Aryan, was playing with his
mum when he fell into the well near his home, in Kaligarh village,
Northern India.
Rescue workers sent an oxygen pipe down to help him breathe
as well as a CCTV camera to monitor his condition.
The video showed a monitor screen displaying the
movements of the child trapped in the well.
Teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF),
State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), and local authorities all worked to save
him.
In a bid to rescue the five-year-old, authorities launched
'Plan B' which saw a piling machine deployed from Sawai Madhopur to dig a
4-foot-wide pit, 5ft from the well.
At the time authorities explained that once the pit reaches
150 feet, NDRF personnel will create a horizontal tunnel to reach Aryan.
The machine progressed at a rate of 20 feet per hour, with
the excavation expected to take seven or eight hours.
Once complete, rescue teams will descend into the pit to
finish the tunnel and bring Aryan to safety, they said.
Sadly, despite their best efforts, the child did not make
it.
The rescue team that brought him out said he was trapped between old pipes.
The child was pulled out after an almost 56-hour rescue
operation that ended at around 11pm on Wednesday.
He was unconscious and a road was cleared to take him to
hospital in an ambulance for timely treatment. However, he was declared dead
after a series of tests.
“The child was rushed to the district hospital in an
ambulance that had an advanced life support system but he was already dead,”
police said.
"The child was brought here so that we could try and
revive him if possible. However, we declared him dead after conducting the ECG
test twice on him,” Deepak Sharma, chief medical officer of Government District
Hospital Dausa said.
“From our initial examination, it appears he might have hit
a hard object or sustained some kind of injury when he fell.”
He said the cause of death would be confirmed by the
autopsy.
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