A major rescue operation is underway in India to try to save a toddler who has been trapped 100-feet down a narrow borewell for 4 days.
A major rescue operation is underway to save a toddler trapped 100 feet down a narrow well for four days, in an incident that has gripped India and prompted the country's prime minister Narendra Modi to weigh in.
Rescuers have been pumping oxygen into the borehole and have brought in heavy digging equipment an effort to drill a second parallel well to allow them to reach the boy. "We did not anticipate that the rock would be so hard. Even the high-powered rigs have struggled to break through the rock. We have just reached about 40 feet and the work has not progressed as planned," Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar told reporters on Monday morning, according to the news channel Times Now. He said they had requested a more advanced drill head."That will be an ultimate attempt," he said.
His condition is unclear. A day earlier, on Sunday evening, the health minister Vijayabaskar told reporters that a thermal camera deployed by a team from Chennai’s Anna University had detected body temperature from the child, suggesting he was still breathing.
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