Toddler stuck in borewell for 6th day, mother pleads for rescue

For more than 110 hours, Dholi Devi has been anxiously praying to God and requesting the rescue team to pull out her three-year-old daughter, Chetna, from a 150-ft deep borewell, in which she fell while playing in her father’s farm in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan.

On Saturday, a video of a wailing Dholi Devi surfaced, in which she could be seen pleading to the authorities to rescue her daughter. “It’s been six days... My daughter is hungry and thirsty. What if the girl was the collector madam’s child? Would she let her be there for so long?” Dholi Devi pleaded.

Initially, the rescuers tried to pull her out using an iron ring attached to a rope, but all attempts failed. After two days of failed attempts, a piling machine was brought to the spot on Wednesday and a parallel pit was dug.

After rain interrupted the rescue operation on Friday, a two-member team entered the pit on Saturday to dig a tunnel. SHO Sarund Mohammad Imran said, “All possible efforts are being made to rescue the girl.” A team of doctors with an ambulance is also stationed at the spot.