A six-year-old girl, who fell into a borewell in Karnataka's Belagavi district on Saturday evening, is yet to be rescued 24 hours after the incident. The last rites were performed soon after, a family member said. "She fell and remained stuck since Saturday evening", a member of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told reporters at Jhunjarawadi village in Athani taluk, where the tragic accident occurred in this northern district, 640km from the state capital Bengaluru.
Kaveri dead body was recovered from the borewell after 54 hoursTwitter/Sandeep Dhar.
A minor girl who was trapped in a dry borewell for almost 54 hours was found dead on Monday night at Jhunjarawadi village in Karnataka's Belagavi district, a rescue team official said on Tuesday morning.
Rescue teams dug a 28ft deep open well using a borewell rig, and made a horizontal tunnel to the borewell by chipping away at the rock walls. Belagavi district in-charge minister Ramesh Jarakiholi, the district deputy commissioner and superintendent of police have been monitoring the rescue operation.
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"We shifted the body in an ambulance to a state-run hospital in Athani for autopsy, before handing it over to her parents", the official said.
The official, who did not wish to be named, said rescue operations are challenging due to the hard soil and rocks around the borewell. Sources said the borewell was located on a farm owned by one Shankar Hipparagi, at a time when Kaveri was out collecting firewood with her mother.
"We have registered a case against the landowner under sections of the Indian Penal Code", said Gowda. "I will discuss with the government about the compensation".
As part of its efforts, the NDRF team at the spot used drainage sucking machine to lift mud and rubble out of the borewell in order to get to the child.
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