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Desperate Efforts Being Made To Save 10-Year-Old Boy Trapped In A Well For Four Days

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Updated 18:17 14 Jun 2022 GMT+1Published 18:18 14 Jun 2022 GMT+1

Desperate Efforts Being Made To Save 10-Year-Old Boy Trapped In A Well For Four Days

Desperate efforts are being made to save a 10-year-old boy who has been trapped in a well in India for four days.

Gabriella Ferlita

Gabriella Ferlita

Desperate efforts are being made to save a 10-year-old boy who has been trapped in a well in India for four days. 

Rahul Sahu fell into the waterhole on Friday, 10 June, while playing in his home’s garden in the state of Chhattisgarh in central India. 

The child, who is both deaf and mute, has been stuck down the 80ft hole for around 96 hours now as emergency personnel have been working to save him.

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Labourers and cranes have made attempts to dig a tunnel adjacent to the well, which is just a few feet wide.

Desperate efforts are being made to save a 10-year-old boy who has been trapped in a well in India for four days.
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Members of the army, as well as staff from India’s disaster response agency have also pitched in to help rescue Rahul.

However, poor weather conditions as well as the presence of poisonous snakes and scorpions which have been uncovered by the mission have hindered the rescue mission, according to local officials.

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The child was said to be ‘responding well’ to rescue staff, while a camera has been monitoring his state and movements, according to a statement on the scene made by Janjgir district police chief Vijay Agrawal. 

“Since the boy cannot speak or listen, we have a bigger challenge,” Vijay said.

Rahul Sahu fell into the waterhole on Friday whilst playing in his home’s garden in the state of Chhattisgarh in central India.
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Rahul is being provided fresh air through an oxygen pipe, but government officials have stated that the efforts are being slowed down by a hard stone beneath the ground’s surface. 

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However, the chief minister of Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh Baghel, is hopeful that the little boy will be rescued safely from the well. 

He tweeted on Monday: “The rescue operation is still on. Due to the presence of a rock during drilling, the time for taking out Rahul Sahu has definitely increased.

“But these voices of NDRF jawans resonating around the borewell for the last 3 days remain the hope of Rahul,” he wrote. 

The leader also explained that the boy was able to eat something handed down to him by rescuers.

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“The child has also eaten a banana at 5 am today,” he wrote.

Labourers and cranes have made attempts to dig a tunnel adjacent to the well, which is just a few feet wide.
Jam Press.

In 2019, some will remember that a two-year-old toddler died after falling into a well after a four-day rescue mission in Punjab. 

In the same year, a one-and-a-half-year-old baby was safely rescued in Haryana after being trapped in a well for two days. 

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Elsewhere, in February a five-year-old child Rayan was trapped 100ft under the ground for four days before being found dead by rescue teams.

If you have a story you want to tell, send it to UNILAD via [email protected].

Featured Image Credit: Jam Press

Topics: World News

Gabriella Ferlita
Gabriella Ferlita

Gabriella Ferlita is a full-time journalist at LADbible Group, writing on lifestyle, communities and news across Tyla, LADbible and UNILAD. When she's not writing, she's fussing over her five-year-old Toyger cat, Clarence.

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