In India, in the state of Madhiya Pradesh, excavations last more than 40 hours in the hope of finding the boy still alive. Tanmay Sahuthe eight-year-old boy had been trapped at a depth of about 30 meters since Tuesday night.
They are still in progress – and it is a race against time – rescue operations to extract the child from the artesian well: rescue teams are digging with excavators a side tunnel reaching the child who, however, according to what has appeared in the last few hours, was no longer responding.
“Hopes of finding him alive are now low,” the head of operations sadly told the media.
Tanmay Diyawar fell into the pit while playing on the field on Tuesday. the drama is over in front of her 12-year-old little sister, who immediately went to his father to tell him what happened. “My daughter saw him and informed me that he had fallen into the well. We ran immediately. He was breathing and we heard his voice”, words of the desperate father to the newspaper The Hindu.
In the last few hours, rescuers have defined the child’s condition as “stable”: Tanmay is being monitored by a video camera, with a medical team on site, while machines continue to dig to bring him back to light. “It takes longer than we expected because there are rocks. We called a demolition machine at night to break them up,” rescuers said yesterday.
But now, as the hours pass, the situation seems to get complicated and it has not yet been possible to extract the child. Accidents of this type are unfortunately frequent in the interior of India, where artesian wells proliferate. Often left uncovered, they pose a serious danger, especially for the little ones.
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