Hisar toddler rescued from borewell after 48 hours

HISAR: A team of Army and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel managed to rescue one-and-a-half-year-old Nadim Khan from 54-feet-deep borewell in Balsamand village of Haryana’s Hisar district after at about 5.20 pm on Friday.


The toddler was rescued 48 hours after he fell into the open borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday evening.

Nadim was with a group of children in the fields when he accidently fell into the borewell dug for a tubewell by a farmer.

He was immediately shifted to Agroha Medical College after the rescue and is under supervision of doctors in a special ward. He will be handed to his family members only after his condition is back to normal.

“This was a very complex operation and it was completed with full support of villagers besides the Army and the NDRF team. The biggest problem came in locating the child because in the beginning we did not even know how deep the child had fallen,” deputy commissioner Ashok Kumar Meena said after the rescue operation ended.

The rescue team used night vision camera to monitor the child’s activities. “The exact location of the child was detected through horizontal direction drilling tracking system,” Meena added.

The little boy is very brave because he was fighting for life for 48 hours alone, the Hisar DC said and added that the toddler had eaten biscuits and other some items on Thursday. He also was all praise for the sarpanch and residents of Balsamand village and said they all would be honoured.

The rescue team dug another borewell some 20 feet away from the first one and connected the two with a three-by-three-foot tunnel to reach the child, according to Meena.

Balsamand which is close to Rajasthan border has sandy soil. The rescue team had to take special measures to ensure that land near the borewell does not collapse due to their operations and cause danger to the child. The district authorities took help of Haryana State Remote Sensing Applications Centre, district information and technology committee and soil experts.

Hisar SP Shiv Charan Sharma said a DDR entry had been registered against an unknown person for leaving the borewell open. “Action will be taken against the guilty person according to the law,” he added.

In 2006, five-year-old Prince had fallen into a 55-ft-deep borewell in a Kurukshetra village and was rescued after a 49-hour ordeal. The rescue was telecast live on almost all news channels.