Three-year-old Bihar girl rescued from borewell after 29 hours
A three-year-old girl was on Wednesday night extricated from a 100-feet deep borewell in Bihar’s Munger district she fell in 29 hours earlier. Sana, daughter of Nachiket Sah, was taken out of the borewell at her grandfather’s place in Murgiyachak locality around 9.30 pm and rushed to a hospital. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) had launched a joint effort to rescue the child who was trapped at a depth of 43 feet. Sana had slipped into the borewell while playing with other children on Tuesday. The borewell was being dug inside the house of her maternal grandfather, Umesh Nandan Prasad Sah, who she went visiting with her mother two days earlier. All along, oxygen supply was maintained to the child externally. In order to ensure safety of the child, the rescue team resorted to manual digging when they reached near the trapped child. -PTC News
