One-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Falls Into 15-Feet Borewell; Miraculously Rescued In 10 Hours [Video]

A one-year-old girl in India who accidentally fell into a 15-feet borewell has been rescued in an operation that lasted around 10 hours.

The toddler, identified as Divyanshi, from a village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was pulled out from the borewell in a combined effort by the army and local rescue services Thursday. Divyanshi was playing outside with other children when she accidentally fell into the open borewell in a field, police said. The child has been hospitalized after the rescue and her condition remains stable, Hindustan Times reported.

"The rescue operation went on from around 3 p.m. (Thursday) till 12:30 a.m. (Friday). The condition of the child is stable right now. We ensured oxygen supplies through a cylinder while the child was stuck inside the borewell," RS Prajapati, a medic who treated the toddler, said, as reported by Free Press Journal.

The child's mother, Ramsakhi Kushwaha, said she had left the child to play with other children in an open field Thursday afternoon. While Kushwaha was at her home, one of the children came running to her informing her about the accident. When Kushwaha went back to check her child, she heard her baby's cries from the borewell. The officials were alerted and they soon started the rescue mission, Kushwaha said.

After initial efforts from local rescue services, the army was called. They used earth-movers and dug an L-shaped tunnel parallel to the borewell that helped the rescue personals to reach the baby. Meanwhile, the child was provided a steady flow of oxygen and the family kept talking to the child consoling her from outside.

Last year, a 4-year-old boy in Texas was rescued by first responders six hours after he fell into a 44-foot deep well. The unidentified boy fell into the narrow deep well while he was on a ranch property in Garceño. The boy who fell in through the opening, which was around eight-ten inches wide, got stuck at nine and a half feet. The rescuers tied a rope around the boy’s hands to keep him falling further down the hole and extracted him by digging a hole adjacent to the original hole.