Stuck in Rajasthan borewell for 10 days, three-year-old girl dies hours after rescue

The child, Chetna, was rescued after five failed attempts and was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for medical attention.

On being brought to the hospital, the doctors declared her dead.

The hospital's medical officer Dr Chetanya Rawat said: "She was brought in and immediately moved to the emergency room, where a special bed was set up for examination. After the doctors performed a procedure, they confirmed the child was no longer alive. The body was then transferred to the morgue. The postmortem  examination has been completed as per the collector's orders."

Chetna was stuck in a 700-feet borewell in Badiyali ki Dhani of Kiratpura village of Kotputli after she fell into it on Dec 23 while playing.

About 10 minutes later, the family heard the girl crying and found her stuck in the borewell.

The national and state Disaster Relief Forces reached immediately with a medical team and efforts have been on since to rescue her.

Oxygen was supplied to the girl through a pipe and after initial efforts to pull her up failed, the rescue teams started digging.

However, they dug the tunnel in the wrong direction.

Over the last few hours, neither food nor oxygen could be provided to her and her condition became critical. 

Collector Kalpana Agarwal explained that the borewell was tilted after a certain depth, which led to mistakes, NDTV reported.

Lastly, experts from Delhi and Jaipur Metro were called in to assist the rescue teams.