A four-year-old boy who fell into a 220-feet-deep open well in Haryana’s Ambala district has died after being rescued after a 21-hour multi-agency operation early on Wednesday.
The boy, Nirveer Singh, was pulled out of the well around 3:45 am and was immediately taken by ambulance to the Civil Sub-Divisional Hospital in Ambala Cantonment, where doctors declared him brought dead.
Rescue operation
Singh was pulled by a team of the Army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), using hooks and special equipment, from the nine-inch-wide well after several failed attempts.
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Rescuers were also planning to dig a parallel shaft on Wednesday if attempts continued to fail, but the presence of two water tables became an obstacle, as they could fill the newly dug hole with water immediately.
The incident took place at around 6.30 am on Tuesday in Dhanora village, when the boy was accompanying his father Manjeet to the fields to deliver breakfast to his grandfather Karnail Singh, who was already working there.
While the men were busy working, the child accidentally slipped into an open, abandoned well.
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After failed attempts to save him, they notified the authorities at around seven in the morning.
Rescue teams launched a large-scale operation under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner Ajay Singh Tomar.
The four-year-old was scheduled to take his first step into kindergarten on Wednesday.
As the family prepared to send him to school, Nerveer insisted on visiting the fields before starting this new stage.
The son of an Electricity Board employee and younger brother of a 12-year-old sister, he returned from Kurukshetra after spending a few days at his maternal grandmother’s house.
