Efforts to rescue a six-year-old girl, Kaveri Ajit Madar, who fell into an abandoned farm borewell in Junjarwad village of Athani taluk in Belagavi district of Karnataka on Saturday encountered some snags.
The presence of hard and rocky soil was delaying the digging process to reach out to the girl, who fell into a 400-feet borewell while playing on Saturday evening.
She was reportedly trapped at a depth of 30 feet. The district administration began the rescue efforts using police and fire department personnel. The National Disaster Response Force and experts from the Hutti Gold Mines later joined the effort.
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Experts dug a parallel pit near the borewell to drill a tunnel to the point where Kaveri was trapped. But digging was slow as there was hard and rocky soil at the spot. The earth-digging machine developed a technical snag for a while, and operations resumed on Sunday.
Fire and Emergency Department and Health department personnel were at work, lowering oxygen pipes into the well. A camera was lowered, which showed the girl stuck in heap of mud.