5-year-old boy dies after falling into 200 feet borewell in Ahmednagar
Pune: A five-year-old boy died after falling into a borewell in a village in Ahmednagar district on Monday evening, in spite of efforts of various teams to rescue him.
A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Pune and the District Disaster Management Cell of Ahmednagar, along with the local police, strove to rescue the child. The operation continued till 3 am on Tuesday, but the boy was declared dead by the doctor.
The deceased boy, who has been identified as Sagar Barela, was from a family that had migrated from Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The police have said that Sagar is suspected to have fallen into the defunct borewell while playing.
Rohit Pawar, local MLA, posted on social media, “The incident of the death of a labourer's child after falling into a borewell is very unfortunate. Despite our best efforts, we could not save him. But to avoid such an accident, farmers should ensure that they properly cover the borewells in their field.”
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7 persons killed as car collides with trailer truck in Gujarat's Sabarkantha
Sabarkantha (Gujarat) (PTI): Seven men were killed and one was grievously injured when a speeding car rammed into a trailer truck on a highway near Himatnagar in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district early Wednesday morning, police said.
Due to the impact of the crash, the car was badly mangled and the bodies were retrieved after hectic efforts, they said. Rescue teams had to use a gas-cutter to remove the car scrap to pull out the bodies, an official said.
The accident occurred on a national highway connecting Udaipur (in Rajasthan) to Ahmedabad (Gujarat) at around 6.30 am, according to police.
"Seven car occupants were killed in the accident," Superintendent of Police Vijay Patel said.
"The car was carrying eight persons to Ahmedabad when it hit the trailer truck from behind while it was going ahead on the national highway," a Himatnagar police official said.
One passenger was grievously injured and rushed to a civil hospital for treatment, he said.
All the deceased were men, hailing from Ahmedabad. Their identities were being confirmed, the official said.
