Babu, A 4-Year-Old Boy Falls Into Open Borewell In Kulpahar Area Of Mahoba In Uttar Pradesh, Rescue Operations On

Babu, a four-year-old boy fell into an open borewell in the Mahoba district's Kulpahar area in Uttar Pradesh on December 2. “Specialised teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) are arriving here. We plan to reach the child through a tunnel which is being dug by three JCB machines,” said Satyendra Kumar, District Magistrate (DM). The child is known to be at a depth of 25 feet, Kumar said, while adding that the teams have successfully dug 20 feet. The medical team present at the site is monitoring the oxygen supply that is being provided to the child. One of the family members of the child told ANI that there was a polythene bag on the top of the open borewell due to which the latter couldn't see and consequently, fell into it while playing at the incident site.

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