Nine days on, 3-yr-old still stuck in Rajasthan borewell

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Jaipur, Updated At : 03:25 AM Jan 01, 2025 IST

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In one of the longest rescue operations in Rajasthan, efforts to pull out a three-year-old girl from a 150-foot deep borewell in Kotputli-Behror district entered the ninth day on Tuesday.

The girl, identified as Chetna, fell into the borewell on December 23 while playing in her father’s farm at Badiyali Dhani. Till Monday, the rescue teams of the NDRF and SDRF were hopeful of completing the operation and reaching the girl, but layers of sedimentary rock have compounded the drilling work.

“Digging eight feet of soil is not a big deal. But we cannot effect a blast if there is a stone. Due to the hard rock, we are facing difficulty in drilling. The work has not stopped for a minute since it started,” NDRF team in-charge Yogesh Meena told reporters on Tuesday.

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