Two people have died and many people are reportedly injured after they fell into a 40-feet-deep well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district yesterday. The official report stated that the incident happened during a rescue operation to pull out an eight-year-old girl. Officials further reported that another body was recovered later.
The chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan took to his Twitter handle to convey his condolences and wrote, “Have received information that two people have lost their lives in Ganjbasoda. Their bodies have been recovered. I pay homage to those who lost their lives in the accident and pray to God to give peace to the departed souls. The rescue work is still on and I am continuously monitoring the situation,”
The police report has informed that the dead and injured were among 40 people who gathered to watch rescuers trying to pull out the girl, who fell into the well. Police further informed that as people were trying to rescue her the well’s boundary wall caved in and they fell into the well.
The state’s medical education minister Vishvas Kailash Sarang has stated that 23 people were rescued and 13 have been admitted to the hospital. Sarang, the guardian minister of Vidisha district 50 km from the state capital of Bhopal, said he has ordered a high-level probe into the accident. He added that that the girl was still in the well and that it was not clear if she was also injured when the well’s boundary wall collapsed.
The rescue operation got suspended for some time after a tractor being used by them also fell into the well. Personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the state-level disaster response force were involved in pulling out people from the well.
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