‘No movement for 36 hours’: Child trapped in borewell for over 2 days died after water got into his windpipe
During the rescue operation, the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) had sent in a water-proof camera into the borewell. However, no movement of the boy had been detected for 36 hours before he was brought out, officials said.
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The effort to rescue the child involved the digging of another borewell by the NDRF. (File)A five-year-old boy, who was trapped inside a borewell in Rajasthan’s Dausa district for 57 hours, was brought out late on Wednesday night and was declared dead soon after, with doctors saying he had likely been dead for 36 hours.
On Thursday morning, a postmortem was conducted on the body, which revealed that the child died due to water getting into his windpipe, said Dausa Chief Medical Officer Dr Deepak Sharma.
Aryan, the son of farmers Guddi Devi and Jagdish Meena, had fallen into a borewell on private land in Kalikhad village at 3.15 pm on Monday.
During the rescue operation, the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) had sent in a water-proof camera into the borewell. However, no movement of the boy had been detected for 36 hours before he was brought out, officials said.
NDRF Deputy Commandant Yogesh Kumar said Aryan’s movement was last detected at 3 am on Tuesday. “No movement was seen when the camera was inserted at 9 am on December 10 (Tuesday). There was no movement of any kind for 36 hours before the child was brought out (on Wednesday night). In such a situation, it is suspected that the child died on the morning of December 10,” said Kumar.
Dr Sharma said the child’s windpipe was filled with water. “It is predicted that… the water level (in the borewell) had risen for some time. The water went inside the child’s nose and got into the wind-pipe, which caused his death…” He said the postmortem was performed on Thursday morning, and that Aryan is believed to have died 36 hours before being rescued.
The effort to rescue the child involved the digging of another borewell by the NDRF.
Mali Ram, SHO of Kalikhad police station, said that the borewell the child fell into was not properly cemented and that there was a fear that it could collapse. “That is the reason a new borewell was dug up by the NDRF team. Machines were called in to the spot and the borewell was dug up on Wednesday. After some time, a machine stopped working, so a new machine was brought in from Sawai Madhopur. The process took a long time due to the position of the child, who was trapped on an underground motor. NDRF officials feared that the child might slip further,” he said.
Rescuers did not send food for the child, fearing that it could cause him to slip further down from the spot he was stuck at.
At 11.30 pm on Wednesday, Aryan was brought out of the borewell. He was immediately taken to hospital in an ambulance equipped with an advanced life support system, official said.
A devastated Jadgish Meena, Aryan’s father, told reporters that the pain of losing his child would never go away, and expressed the hope that such incidents can be prevented in the future.
The funeral was held on Thursday afternoon.
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