Madhya Pradesh: 10-year-old boy rescued from borewell in Guna, rushed to hospital

GUNA(Madhya Pradesh): The 10-year-old boy who has been identified as Sumit was rescued after he fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district, an official said on Sunday.

The boy was rushed to a hospital after being rescued. Guna Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Man Singh Thakur said that the rescue operations began at 6:00 in the evening on Saturday and went on till the boy was rescued in the morning today. The boy remains unconscious and his breathing is slow, he added.

#WATCH | Guna, Madhya Pradesh: The 10-year-old boy, Sumit who fell into a borewell in the Janjali area of ​​Raghogarh yesterday has been taken out and sent to a hospital. Details awaited. pic.twitter.com/5rSjIsv48j

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“Sumit fell into the borewell yesterday afternoon at around 3:30 pm. The rescue operation to take him out began at around 6 pm. Today morning at around 9:30 am, Sumit was taken out of the borewell. He has been taken to the hospital, his breathing is slow. He is unconscious right now,” Thakur told ANI.

The official informed that two rescue teams were deployed to help rescue the boy. The incident took place in the Janjali area of Raghogarh on Saturday evening.

Collector Satyendra Singh of Guna earlier said, “The oxygen support is being provided to the boy (trapped inside the borewell). All the teams are engaged in the rescue operation.”The boy was trapped at a depth of around 39 feet, the official added.

A parallel 22-foot-deep pit was dug to rescue the boy.He also mentioned that a team of doctors was providing oxygen support to the boy. (ANI)