A four-year-old boy named Nirbhay fell into a 220-foot-deep borewell in Dhanaura village of Barara, Ambala, on Tuesday morning, setting off an emergency rescue operation almost exactly two decades after a similar accident in the state turned a young boy named Prince into a household name as the "borewell boy."
Officials confirmed Nirbhay slipped into the narrow shaft, just about 9 inches wide, while playing near an open field around 6.30 am. The Army, NDRF and SDRF were called in soon after, and the rescue effort was underway through the day. Deputy Commissioner Ajay Singh Tomar reached the spot shortly after the alert and confirmed specialised equipment had been deployed, with Army support brought in to assist the digging operation.
