Under-construction well caves in in MP’s Chhindwara; woman among 3 trapped
Three people, including a woman, were trapped under the debris after an under-construction well caved in at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district on Tuesday, police said.
The incident occurred at Khunajhir Khurd village late in the evening and a rescue operation is on, they said.
SP Ajay Pandey said all three -- two men and a woman -- are alive and efforts are on to pull them out of the debris.
After getting information about the collapse of the under-construction well, State Disaster Emergency Response Force and police teams reached the spot and launched a rescue operation using earthmoving machines, he said.
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