Pune: Boy rescued from 200-ft borewell after 16-hour-long operation

Ravi Pandit Bhill was playing near the borewell last evening while his father, a labourer, was busy with road construction work. Police and disaster response personnel swung into action after he fell in at 4.45 pm.

A young boy trapped in a 200-foot-deep borewell in Maharashtra's Pune district was rescued on Thursday after an 16-hour-long operation involving police and disaster response personnel.

A crowd looked on as National Disaster Response Force and police officials carried Ravi Pandit Bhill, 6, who was stuck at a depth of 10 feet.

He was playing near the borewell last evening while his father, a labourer, was busy with road construction work, and he fell in at around 4.45 pm, the police said.

The borewell is in Thorandale, a village in Ambegaon tehsil.

Courtesy : India Today