Jamnagar (Gujarat): A three-year-old girl slipped into a borewell and was stuck at a depth of 40 feet in an agricultural field in Gujarat's Jamnagar district on Saturday afternoon following which fire department personnel launched a rescue operation, an official said.
The toddler, belonging to a tribal family working as labourers on a farm at Tamachan village, some 40 km from Jamnagar city, fell into the nearly 200-foot-deep borewell while playing, said Jamnagar taluka development officer NA Sarvaiya. The incident occurred around 9 am, he said.
"We launched a rescue operation around 11 am involving fire department personnel from Jamnagar. The girl is stuck at a depth of around 20 feet and efforts are underway to rescue her," Sarvaiya said. The rescue operation, as per the latest inputs, is still going on with Army joining the operation as well.
