New Delhi, July 16:
At least two people died and several others were injured after they fell into a 40-feet-deep well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha distict on Thursday during a rescue operation to pull out an eight-year-old girl, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said. Another body was recovered later, officials said on Friday.
Chouhan extended his condolences over the loss of lives in the accident and said rescue work is still underway. “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,” Chouhan tweet, roughly translated from Hindi, read.
The dead and the injured were among the nearly 40 people, who gathered to watch rescuers trying to pull out the girl, who fell into the well on Thursday evening while playing. Bhopal division’s additional director general of police Sai Manohar said as people were trying to rescue her the well’s boundary wall caved in and they fell into the well.
MP’s medical education minister Vishvas Kailash Sarang, who was sent by Chouhan to Ganjbasoda, said shortly before midnight that about 23 people were rescued and 13 have been admitted to 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.
A police officer said 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.
