The teenagers, aged 14 to 18, were visiting from Cypress and Tomball, outside Houston, and Spring Branch, outside San Antonio. They were there as part of a summer camp run by the Bayou City Fellowship, city officials said in a news release, New York Times reported.
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was playing with her friends when she fell into a 300-ft-deep 'uncovered' borewell in Madhya Pradesh, one of the nearly 27 million borewells in India.
The woman who has been identified as Vera Litvinov had left for Khoh Waterfall from Old Manali along with her friend, Iurii Iarovoi, also a foreign national.
A two-and-a-half year old girl was playing with her friends while she fell into a 300-ft-deep 'uncovered' borewell in Madhya Pradesh, one of the nearly 27 million bore wells in India. Shrishti Kushwaha died and her body was pulled out in a decomposed state on Thursday from a gruelling rescue
The two-and-half-year-old girl, who had fallen into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district two days ago, has been rescued, officials said on Thursday.
The team along with a robot reached here from Gujarat on Thursday morning and they will try to rescue the girl, Shrishti Kushwaha, with the help of a robot.
Prima facie it appeared that the girl fell from the roof after her foot got stuck in a pipe. We are also scanning CCTV cameras of the area to ascertain the exact reason behind the incident, officials said.
Concerned over "an alleged incident...in which approximately 80 girls and women fell ill in two schools in Sanchark District, in the north of Afghanistan," the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund stated, according to the Afghan news agency.
"Only the girl's frock could get caught in the hook and the girl could not come out. Now the army is trying to bring her out with its own mechanism. The work of digging a parallel tunnel is going on," Sehore in-charge collector Ashish Tiwari said.