Madhya Pradesh: Child Pulled Out Of Sehore Borewell After 55-Hour Operation Dies

The two-and-half-year-old girl, who fell into a 300-foot borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore, was pulled out after a 55-hour operation. However, she has passed aw.

Diggers and robotic arms were deployed to rescue the 2.5-year-old child who fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore ( Image Source :PTI )

The two-and-half-year-old girl, who fell into a 300-foot borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore, was pulled out after a 55-hour operation. However, despite the best efforts by medical and rescue personnel, she did not survive. She was sent to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival. "Despite our best attempts, we could not save the girl. An autopsy by a team of two doctors revealed that the body was in a decomposed state. The cause of death was suffocation," the collector of Sehore said.

The girl, named Srishti, fell into the borewell around 1 pm on Tuesday. Initially trapped at a depth of approximately 40 feet, she unfortunately slid further down to about 100 feet due to vibrations caused by the rescue machinery, confirmed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday.

Soon, the Army joined the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) in the rescue efforts. Twelve earth-moving and poclain machines were involved in the operation.

A team of robotic experts joined the rescue operation on Thursday morning. Srishti was being supplied oxygen by the rescue team that kept her alive. Officials said that a robot had been deployed into the borewell to gather information about the child's condition. 

Initially, sources said that she had been rescued in an unconscious and critical state.

A similar incident occurred in Gujarat's Jamnagar district, where a two-year-old girl got stuck at a depth of 200 feet in a narrow borewell. Despite the relentless efforts of multiple agencies for 19 hours, the child did not survive the ordeal She passed away the moment she was pulled out of the borewell.

In response to such incidents, the Supreme Court in 2009 issued guidelines aimed at preventing fatal accidents involving children falling into abandoned borewells. The court revised these guidelines in 2010, which included measures such as installing barbed wire fencing during construction, using steel plate covers secured with bolts over well assemblies, and filling borewells from the bottom to ground level.

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