Post date: Jun 23, 2012 11:5:10 AM
Local authorities have launched intensive rescue and relief operations to save who has been trapped in a 60-feet-deep borewell after she slipped into the hole while playing on her birthday on Wednesday night (June 20).
Rescuers were able to successfully carve out a way to reach Mahi and she was expected pulled out soon -- but the chances were blocked by the presence of a rock, which the rescue workers were trying to remove manually.
The rescue operations to save the girl child, Mahi in Gurgaon of India's northern state of Haryana gathers steam as security personnel inch closer to make first contact with the child.
KHO, HARYANA, INDIA (JUNE 23, 2012) (ANI) - The rescue operations to save the girl child, Mahi in Gurgaon of India's northern state of Haryana gathered steam on Saturday (June 23) as security personnel inched closer to make first contact with the child.
The option of using a drill to remove the rock was removed from the table as the authorities believed it could injure Mahi.
Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while speaking to reporters in New Delhi said that the rescue workers were very close to the girl and the state government has been exhausting all logistical and administrative support on this incident.
"The state government is making all the possible arrangements. A vertical tunnel has been built and the work of the horizontal tunnel was in full swing with only 1.5 to 2 feet remaining but a rock was blocking the way, now they (rescue workers) are trying to break the rock and get to her. God willing the girl would be rescued in time, our prayers are with her and the state government is leaving no resource to rescue her," said Hooda.
Mahi's family has been inconsolable for two days; pleading with the authorities to save the toddler.
Rescuers said they had been supplying Mahi with oxygen through pipes and monitoring her movements using closed circuit cameras.
The Army and National Security Guards (NSG) teams have now dug a parallel pit next to the borewell as part of operations to save the child.
Accidents like this have happened before in India, where children have fallen into uncovered manholes.