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Rescuers in India pull out boy from 12-meter well after six-hour operation
Rescue workers in India’s eastern Nalanda district pulled out a child alive from a 12-meter well (40-foot) on Sunday after a six-hour operation.
Three-year-old Shivan Kumar was playing near the open well earlier in the day when he fell in.
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A camera was inserted into the well to monitor the child's condition.
In a video, the child’s mother is seen crying as rescuers struggle to pull out her son.
After a nearly six-hour rescue operation, members of India’s National Disaster Response Force pulled the child to safety and rushed him to hospital.
(With Reuters)
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