- विज्ञापन -
Bhopal: The rescue teams in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna have on Sunday rescued a 10-year old boy from well after 16 hours who fell into a deep well while flying kite outside his home yesterday.
The boy has been identified as Sumit Meena, was rushed to the district hospital after rescue while he lost his life.
Police officials said that Sumit had fallen into a borewell while flying a kite with his friends and cousins near his home in Raghogarh town in Guna. He was rescued after an over 16-hour operation by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and local police.
Despite efforts to stabilise him, the child passed away shortly after being brought to the hospital. Sumit Meena became the seventh victim of a borewell tragedy in the past two years (between December 2022 and 2024) in different parts of Madhya Pradesh.
Before him, a six-year-old boy Mayank Kol had fallen into a borewell in Teonthar tehsil of Rewa district on April 12 this year. He was rescued after more than 40 hours of operation by multiple agencies, including a team of the Indian Army.
The child, however, could not survive. The incident prompted the state administration to order the suspension of two senior officials from Janpad Teonthar for alleged negligence.
In July last year, the state government had said those who would not cover their borewells would be punished. The government had also made a provision for strict punishment against the borewell owners, even if they were parents of the victims.
The administration had carried out an inspection to find open borewells in the state. Despite the efforts, children continued to become the victims of the borewell tragedy.
