Rescuers worked tirelessly for the second day on Sunday to retrieve a 10-year-old kid who fell into a 140-foot borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district.
A parallel pit was dug. Rescuers are using their hands to make a way through the pit and borewell to reach the child, Raghogarh Congress MLA Jaivardhan Singh said.
He stated that a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was on its way to the boy and that oxygen was being pumped into the borehole.
Singh said the operation continued through the night to rescue Sumit Meena, who slipped into the open shaft of the borewell at around 5 pm on Saturday in Pipliya village under Raghogarh assembly segment, located 50 km from the Guna district headquarters.
The boy is trapped at a depth of 39 feet. The borewell is around 140-feet deep, Guna Collector Satendra Singh said on Saturday.
The borewell did not strike water, and hence no casing had been put on it, the collector said.
The NDRF team reached there from Bhopal late Saturday evening was leading the rescue operation.
The family members of the boy panicked on Saturday evening when they did not see him for a long time.
A search was carried out and then they realised he had fallen into the borewell, a local person said.
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