Overview
- Rescuers pulled out two‑and‑a‑half‑year‑old Bhagirath on Friday after roughly 22 to 23 hours of work, and doctors at a government hospital declared him dead.
- The child fell into an uncovered farm borewell in Jhalaria village of Badnagar, Ujjain district, after a sheep knocked a stone off the lid and he peered inside, according to police.
- Teams from the NDRF and SDRF used cameras, oxygen lines, and a rescue rope, and dug a parallel pit with excavators before drilling stalled at about 40 feet due to hard rock that required hammer machines.
- A postmortem found the boy died from drowning, and officials said they will hand the body to the family after formalities.
- Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced ₹4 lakh in aid for the parents, and local authorities signaled an inquiry and moves to identify and seal open borewells.