Faridabad Girl, 2, Who Fell Into 220-Feet Deep Borewell Brought Out Dead
A two-year-old girl named Neha died after falling into an abandoned 220-foot borewell in Faridabad, India. Despite a 10-hour rescue operation involving multiple emergency agencies, the child could not be saved.
Why it matters
The incident underscores the persistent danger of improperly sealed borewells in rural and semi-urban areas, often leading to preventable child fatalities.
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl, who fell into a nearly 200-foot-deep borewell while playing in Seehi village here, was declared dead after being pulled out early Monday, police said.The girl, identified as Neha, was playing with other children near the borewell when she fell into it on Sunday evening. A tractor was parked nearby and the children had climbed onto it while playing. Neha allegedly slipped from the tractor and fell into the borewell.Neha was pulled out of the borewell at 4 am after a 10-hour operation and rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared her dead."We have kept the body in a mortuary.
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