They rescue alive the ten-year-old boy who fell into a well in India and has been trapped 24 meters deep for 104 hours
Rahul Sahu, the 10-year-old boy trapped since last Friday in a well 24 meters deep in India, has finally been rescued on Tuesday night (early Wednesday morning in Spain) after a hundred hours of strenuous efforts to reach until the. The entire country sighed when a stretcher carried by rescuers brought the little boy to the surface, conscious but with obvious signs of weakness and fatigue. The citizens celebrated the happy ending of a rescue operation considered “titanic” by the Indian authorities, since the rescue teams had to remove thousands of tons of earth and rock in painful conditions until they managed to drill a gallery that connected to the well. The little boy is admitted to a hospital in Raipur, where he receives “special care”, according to a Chhattisgarh State Government spokesman.
The media will highlight the courage of Rahul, the young deaf-mute who has spent more than four days without being able to move inside a damp and dark hole “without losing his nerve”. Last Friday he accidentally fell into the well, dug near his home in the eastern Indian village of Pihird. It is the typical artisanal pool open for agricultural work, many of which are later exposed and are the cause of dozens of accidents every year.
Apparently, the boy was playing in the garden when he fell through the hole. Apparently, his body brushed against the walls during the descent, which slowed down his speed and helped prevent serious injuries. Rahul was stuck in the hole, unable to move, much less climb walls slippery with mud and moisture. The image captured later with a small camera, which showed the minor stuck and with his arms above his head, overwhelmed the country, which began to count the hours of the rescue in a real life or death race against the clock.
βIt has been a daunting operation that lasted 104 hours,β explains the government spokesman in a message posted on social networks. About 150 soldiers and civilians took that time to open a gallery to the place where Rahul was staying. Although the work began at a good pace, the excavation was complicated when the rescuers ran into a “very hard” stone bed, according to the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The difficulties raised the fear at some point that Rahul would lose his strength before the end of the rescue. Apart from drilling the rock, the rescuers have had to deal with bad weather β the rains turned the works into a real quagmire β and the danger represented by hundreds of poisonous snakes and scorpions that appeared with the earthworks. Even a snake fell into the well where the child was.
Rahul managed to make the doctors understand, through a camera dropped from outside, that he was fine, if weak, and hungry. Rescuers were able to get him some fruit. His family did not separate from him at any time, taking turns talking to him with the help of a microphone.
Thousands of people have remained glued to televisions, whose broadcasts showed workers with circumspect faces and large drilling machines working by the piece. After ninety hours, the doctors were aware that the young man was already going through very weak moments, despite the fact that the teams managed to place an air hose that allowed him to breathe fresh air. Fourteen hours later, at dusk, the authorities announced the success of the rescue and shared images of Rahul on a stretcher going outside and then lying on a hospital bed, surrounded by smiling doctors.
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