A 6-year-old boy, who on Friday fell into an open borewell in an agricultural field at Manika village in the Janeh police station area of Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district, died on Sunday after a 45-hour-long rescue operation.
CM Yadav posted on X, "News about a child falling into a borewell in Manika village of Rewa district is sad. A team of SDRF (State Disaster Response Force) and district administration is trying to get the child out safely. I am also in constant touch with the local administration. Deputy
A 5-year-old boy fell into an open borewell in an agricultural field at Manika village in the Janeh police station area of Rewa district, officials informed on Friday.
Five children of a family lost their lives after drinking contaminated water from a borewell in the Sanghar district of Sindh, ARY News reported on Friday.
Karnataka's Industries Minister MB Patil on Thursday lauded the rescue teams involved in saving the two-year-old who fell into a borewell at Lachyana village in Vijayapura district.
After a 20-hour long operation, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams successfully rescued a one and a half-year-old child on Thursday who had fallen into an open borewell in Lachyan village in Indi taluk, Vijayapura district.
Delhi Police on Monday filed an FIR into the death of a man, who fell into a borewell at a sewage treatment plant of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in the Keshopur area of the national capital.
Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva on Sunday lashed out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led government and blamed them for "carelessness" after a man died falling into Delhi Jal Board's sewage treatment plant in the Keshopur area.
Calling the incident "sad," Virendraa Sachdeva recalled
Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Sunday directed Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to seal all borewells in the city within 48 hours after a man died falling into Delhi Jal Board's sewage treatment plant in the Keshopur area.
Sharing details of the ongoing borewell rescue operation in Delhi's Keshopur area on Sunday, station officer, Rani Jhansi Road, said the person who fell into the borewell wasn't a minor as was assumed earlier but an adult of between 15 to 20 years of age.
According to the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), the child fell into a borewell, about 40-50 feet deep, inside the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) plant in the Keshopur Mandi area.
Water sources in many villages in the state have reportedly been depleted. Due to groundwater depletion, many borewells are slowly going dry, with more than 3000 borewells in Bengaluru.