AN 18-month-old boy was miraculously pulled out alive after he fell down a 500ft (152m) deep WELL.

The little lad - called Shivam Badhel - stood on the plastic cover and it gave way.

The tot plummeted about 50ft (15.2m) down into the shaft.

Luckily, locals heard his cries for help and a team led by the Indian Army launched the rescue operation.

The team lowered a rope with a hook on it which they were able to attach to Shivam’s T-shirt.

They painstakingly winched him up and filmed the dramatic rescue.

The toddler came out looking shocked but smiling before he was taken to a waiting ambulance to be checked over.

Shivam - the son of an agricultural labourer - had been playing last Tuesday (Jun 7) in the village of Dudapur, in Gujarat, India when the accident happened.

The borewell - a PVC pipe used to draw water out of the ground - was just 12 inches in diameter.

The rescue took just two hours.

Farm owner Vibha Rabari said: "The boy apparently climbed over the casing of the borewell and the tube couldn’t withstand his weight.”

Mukesh Patel, who is the sub-divisional magistrate of Dhrangadhra said: “The Army rescuers lowered a hook tied to a rope in the borewell.

“The rescuers trapped his T-shirt in the hook and then gently pulled him out of the borewell.”

Shivam was taken to hospital but only suffered minor injuries.