5-yr-old boy dies after falling into borewell near Pune
June 17, 2007
Pune
News: A five-year-old boy, who fell
into a borewell while playing at a
village in Shirur taluka of the
district on Sunday, died in a hospital
after being rescued, official sources
said. Sonu Shivaji Deshmukh was
trapped at about 20-feet inside the
150-feet narrow borewell since 1030
hours after falling into it.
He was
rescued after a seven-hour ordeal and
immediately taken to a hospital in
Shirur in an unconscious state where
the boy died at about 1800 hours,
Tehsildar Udaysinh Bhonsale said.
The operation to rescue the boy was
launched by villagers of Vadagaon
Rasai before the local administration
stepped in to coordinate the work in
which two teams from Pune were
specially summoned and CRPF personnel
from an adjoining camp also chipped
in, he said.
The boy was taken out of the borewell
at about 1730 hours and taken to the
hospital. However, the boy could not
be saved, Bhonsale said.
"The body would be handed over to the
family after completion of all
formalities, including post-mortem,"
Shirur police station Inspector Namdev
Bhale said.
"We plan to register a case in
connection with the incident", he
added.
