A three-year-old boy Fatehvir , who has been trapped in a 150-foot-deep borewell for over 110 hours in Punjab's Sangrur district, was rescued on 11th June (Tuesday morning) around . The child was rescued at 5:12 am by joint efforts of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), police officials and local volunteers.Soon after rescue the toddler was taken to a hospital in an ambulance where doctors declared him dead .
The child, Fatehvir Singh, turned three-years-old on Monday. He fell into the unused seven-inch wide borewell in a field around 4 pm on Thursday (June 6) when he was playing near his house in Bhagwanpura village in Sangrur area. A team of the NDRF assisted by police, civil authorities, villagers and volunteers, were carrying out the rescue operation amid scorching heat.The child was struck in a 9-inch diameter borewell and was not able to move. His face was covered with a jute bag which fell when the child slipped into the borewell. The borewell was covered with a cloth and the boy accidentally stepped on it.
While the officials managed to supply oxygen to the kid, no food or water could be provided to him after he fell into the borewell. The borewell is owned by the child's father.
A parallel borewell of 36 inches in diameter was dug to rescue the child.