Three-year-old trapped in borewell Near Agra

A three-year-old girl Vandana fell into a 45-feet deep borewell at a village near Agra. Vandana fell into the borewell in Hulaspura village while playing with her father, police said. Rescue operations are underway with the police, Army and locals trying to get to Vandana.

"The girl fell into the pit last night. The estimated depth of the pit is 35-40 feet and a parallel one of the same dimension is being dug besides it to rescue the girl," Kamal Saxena, deputy inspector general of Agra, said.

Food and oxygen are being supplied to the girl through ropes from the surface, they said. Sources said the Army was called in to help, after efforts by the locals to rescue the girl failed.

Vandana has been in the borewell for more than 14 hours now.

UPDATE

Three-year-old girl Vandana was on Wednesday night rescued 26 hours. The district administration, with the help of army jawans from 509 Base Workshop, scooped out soil from earth all night to reach her. The rescuers dug a parallel pit nearly 10 feet from the borewell to reach the child and then dug a tunnel to reach Vandana.