Five-year-old girl falls into 50-feet-deep borewell in Karnal; Haryana administration launches rescue operation

Chandigarh: A five-year-old girl fell into a 50-feet-deep borewell in Harsinghpura village in Haryana’s Karnal district and a rescue operation was on to pull her out, police said on Monday. [caption id=“attachment_7596301” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Ongoing rescue operations to retrieve the child from the borewell in Haryana’s Karnal. ANI[/caption] She fell in the borewell belonging to her family while playing in the fields on Sunday in Gharaunda area, a police official said. After her family realised that she was missing, they launched a search for the child, but then found that she had fallen into the borewell, he said. The district administration and the police were informed and a rescue operation was launched. Later, the NDRF was also informed, the official said. Oxygen was being supplied inside the borewell and the rescuers used a camera to check on the child through which they saw her foot. An audio recording of her parents’ voice was also played to give her a sense of security, the police said. Earlier in July, two-year-old Fatehvir Singh, was pulled out dead from a 150-foot deep borewell shaft in Punjab’s Sangrur district after an unsuccessful rescue operation which lasted over four days. In March, an 18-month old boy was rescued from a borewell in Haryana’s Hisar district, two days after he had fallen into it. In 2006, a massive operation was launched to rescue five-year-old Prince, who had fallen into a borewell in a village in Kurukshetra. He was pulled out safely nearly 48 hours later.