1. WATCH | Vijayapura toddler who fell into abandoned borewell rescued after 21 hours of ops
Rescue efforts to save the life of a 15-month-old child were successful after nearly 21 hours of continuous drilling and monitoring, in Lachyan village in Vijayapura district on Thursday, April 4. Satwik Mujagonda had fallen to a depth of 16 feet into an empty borewell near his house on April 3 evening.
Teams of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), fire and emergency services, police, zilla panchayat and revenue were involved in the recuse efforts. The teams had lowered oxygen pipe and an endoscopy camera into the pipeline. A trench was dug next to the borewell pipe and the child was slid into it through another horizontal trench connecting the two.
