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In order to recover a five-rupee coin from a 25-ft-deep well,four family members lost their lives due to asphyxiation at Pinjore this afternoon. Children were playing along a cowshed close to the Kaushalaya river when Somus (10) 5-rupee coin fell in the 25-ft deep well,having a little dirty water.
According to eyewitnesses,he went down by the stairs but never came out. After some time,the children raised a hue and cry and informed his sister Urmila (28). She went down in his search but did not come out.
Then Bhupinder (32) went down to look for his wife and brother-in-law but he also met the same fate. After this,Urmilas cousin Bunty (19) went down searching for the other three,again through stairs,but did not come out.
By this time,a lot of people had gathered at the spot. A local youth,Sanjay,then went down to the well but tied a rope around his waist as a safety measure. On going down he found Somus hand and pulled him up.
Somu was alive and was rushed to the nearby Primary Health Centre (PHC),where he was declared dead on arrival. As Sanjay kept going down further,looking for the other three,he started developing breathlessness and came out.
After gaining some breath,he again went down and brought out Bhupinder. He repeated the exercise for the other two,Urmila and Bunty as well and pulled out their bodies.
All three,who were in an unconscious state,were rushed to the PHC but were declared dead on arrival.
The bodies were shifted to the Kalka mortuary,where the post mortem examination will be conducted on Saturday. Urmila and Bhupinder are survived by a four-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. Somus mother,Kranti Devi,was crying inconsolably on receiving news of the four deaths in the family. The exact cause of death can be ascertained only when the post mortem report would comes, said Pinjore SHO Inspector Dalip Singh.
As we go down into a well,there is a lack of oxygen and people die of asphyxia. Other gases like Methane and Carbon Dioxide which are present abet asphyxiation, explained Panchkula Civil Surgeon Dr V K Bansal. These gases are heavier than air and replace oxygen at low level structures like wells.
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