Four-yr-old falls into 500 ft deep borewell in Gujarat`s Surendranagar, dies

Surat: In a tragic incident, a four-year-old boy, who fell into a borewell in Karsangadh village of Surendranagar in Gujarat on Thursday has died. 

The rescuers along with locals had made all efforts to take the child out of the borewell that is almost 500 ft deep. 

Government officials said that they received information about the boy falling into the tubewell on the farm of one Khoda Bharvad in Karsangadh village in Muli taluka of Surendranagar at around 1:30 pm. 

The boy was identified as Sagar Devipujak, son of an agricultural labourer who was working on Bharwad’s farm.

Earlier today, Mohabatsinh Parmar, mamlatdar of Muli taluka told media that the boy seemed to have been stranded at the depth of around 150 feet in the tubewell. A medical team that was present at the site, had pumped oxygen in the borewell while making efforts to rescue the child.

In a similar incident last year, a one-year-old girl had accidently slipped into a borewell in Ghanshyamgadh village of Surendranagar district. 

However, the girl had died minutes after the rescuers had pulled her out of the tubewell from the depth of around 120 ft by tying a rope into her hand.