Telangana’s Little Toddler Pulled Out Dead From Borewell:- After about 58 hours of rescue operation involving different agencies, the rescue workers on Sunday have pulled out dead, the 14-month old girl Meena who accidentally fell into an open borewell in the city on Thursday.

The little girl, fondly called as Chinnari, was a daughter of a farm laborer. Meena was playing with her elder sister, Akshitha, when she fell in the nearly 450-feet-deep open borewell accidentally. The open borewell was in a field at Ekkareddyguda village of Chevella mandal, about 60 kms from Hyderabad, on Thursday around 7.15 pm.

The Cyberabad Police Commissioner Sandeep Shandilya said, “After the remains were retrieved, we called off the rescue operation at 6am on Sunday. On Saturday, the authorities said the survival chances of the toddler were bleak. Using various methods, on Thursday, the efforts to rescue the child had started from 8 pm. However, her at around 245 feet on Sunday, her remains were found stuck, the Police said. Chevella police station’s sub-inspector N. Sridhar Reddy said, “the child’s remains were handed over to her family members and taken to her native Gorepally village, after the post mortem was conducted.”

Even as the rocky area and rains had hampered the rescue work, a parallel trespass was dug along the hole, with the help of earth excavating machines, to rescue the girl after she fell into the borewell. In addition, high-tech sensitive cameras were deployed to locate the girl and the oxygen was pumped continuously in the borewell.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, the fire department and a team of ONGC officials were also involved in the rescue operation. At the spot, a team of doctors and ambulance was also deployed.

A case under under IPC section 336 has been registered by the Cyberabad Police against the land owner, Malla Reddy.

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