In Uttar Pradesh, 4-year-old falls into 40-feet-deep borewell, rescued after 5-hour operation

MEERUT: A four-year-old boy who fell into a 40-feet-deep, uncovered and defunct borewell belonging to the municipality after sliding through a tunnel barely a foot wide, was rescued after a delicate rescue operation that lasted close to five hours. He is safe now and doing well, said cops.
Around 11am on Tuesday, the boy, Mohammad Maviya, was playing with other kids of the locality when the group wandered to an abandoned locality filled with ruins and Maviya fell into the borewell.
The other two kids alerted some local residents sitting around a bonfire, who informed the boy's father, Mohammad Sajid, and police.
A police team led by SP Deepak Bhuker and Hapur district magistrate Medha Rupam reached the spot and followed the boy's screams to the tiny corner where the mouth of the borewell was. National Disaster Rescue Force (NDRF) personnel were called to the spot, who began the rescue operation.
A night-vision camera was used to locate the boy. Cops vacated people from the cramped space to allow sufficient flow of oxygen into the well and lowered two bottles of milk using a rope, which the boy drank. To calm him down, the boy's grandfather was called, who kept talking to him as authorities figured out a way to get him out.
Finally, an iron ring was welded on the spot to fit the kid. It was lowered using a rope into the well and holding on to it, the boy was lifted up.
A doctor team that was kept on standby examined the boy and took him to a hospital, where he was said to be healthy. "The boy is now safe and sound. The rescue operation went on for about five hours," said SP Bhuker. A senior official of the Hapur municipal council said the borewell has now been covered.