5-year-old boy falls in borewell

It has been more than 48 hours since 5 year old Sahil fell into an open abandoned borewell in Jaipur's Jagatpura village. (NDTV photo)

After 2 days of rescue operations where 6 GCB machines dug 80 feet into the earth, the administration has now decided to go in for manual digging as the soil is loose and threatens to collapse under the earth movers. (NDTV photo)

Sahil is stuck at about 150 feet in a borewell which is 260 feet deep. He fell head first into the borewell at about 7.30 am on monday. (NDTV photo)

The operation where workers will now manually dig a tunnel to reach the boy, exacavating the soil with buckets could take hours. The rescue operations continued through the night.(NDTV photo)

A child specialist present on the site, said the boy was showing no movement and was lying unconscious in the borewell.(NDTV photo)

Oxygen to the child is being supplied continuously. (NDTV photo)

A 60-feet parallel pit has been dug with the help of earth moving machines to facilitate the rescue of the child and rescue workers were trying to reach the boy. (NDTV photo)

Rescue operations are on and a parallel pit is being dug alongside the borewell to reach the boy.(NDTV photo)

5-year-old Saahil fell into the borewell near his house while he was playing with his elder sister in the village, which is nearly 60 kms from Jaipur.(NDTV photo)

This is not the first time a child has accidently fallen into a borewell. In July 2006, a 5-year-old boy named Prince was rescued from a 2-and a half feet in diameter, 60-foot deep borewell when he fell down while playing near it in his village in Haryana. The rescue then had lasted over 48 hours and was aided by Armymen who miraculously managed to pull Prince out.
Although 2-year-old Sonu was not so lucky. In October 2009, Sonu fell into a 150-feet borewell in his village near Agra. Even though authorities launched a massive effort to rescue him, unfourtunately, he could not be saved. (NDTV photo)