Infant falls into 20-foot-deep pit

July 02, 2012 02:39 am | Updated July 12, 2016 06:20 am IST - GURGAON:

Rescuers attend to one-and-a-half year-old Sachin who fell in a deep pit in a village in Gurgaon on Sunday night.

Rescuers attend to one-and-a-half year-old Sachin who fell in a deep pit in a village in Gurgaon on Sunday night.

A one-and-half-year-old boy fell into a 20-foot-deep pit dug by the Electricity Department at Chkuma here on Sunday evening.

The pit was dug for some earthing work.

Besides a rescue team, fire, medical and police personnel have reached the spot. Oxygen is being supplied through a pipe to the child, identified as Sachin, Chief Medical Office Parveen Garg said.

A CCTV camera has been lowered into the pit, which showed the child was conscious, he said.

The incident comes six days after rescuers pulled out four-year-old Mahi dead from a 70-foot-deep borewell near Manesar, where she was trapped for four days.

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