The whole of India is watching a well over 40 meters deep where a three-year-old girl has been trapped since last Monday, reports Efe. Rescue teams have been working for over 72 hours to try to rescue the little girl.
"The rescue teams were immediately called, and according to their instructions, the rescue operation is underway. We are trying to get the girl out as soon as possible," said the district administrator of Kotputli, in the state of Rajasthan, Kalpana Agarwal, to the media on Thursday. The girl fell into the narrow well on Monday, located in a small vacant lot on the outskirts of a village in the district, according to images released by the Indian agency PTI.
Since then, dozens of personnel from the National Disaster Response Force of India (NDRF) and the regional disaster response authority have been there, trying to rescue the girl with the help of excavators and other machinery. Authorities have not yet provided information on the girl's condition.
The subdivision magistrate of the district, Brijesh Chaudhary, told the media that the girl is trapped about nine meters deep and indicated that they are trying to dig a hole parallel to the well to rescue her.
These types of accidents are common in India due to the opening of illegal wells near residential areas or their poor signaling.
Last April, a six-year-old boy died after being trapped in a well in central India, despite about forty hours of race against time rescue operations.