She broke through Styrofoam and fell twelve meters through a shaft: Miraculously, 9-year-old Svenja was unharmed. The little girl probably owes her life to the fact that there was almost a meter of water in the well.
There were two sounds that abruptly ended a moody Wednesday evening between two families of friends in Hadersdorf am Kamp (Lower Austria): the crunch of Styrofoam and a loud splash. “I thought to myself: nothing will have fallen into the well,” the homeowner told the “Krone”. But a little later his son (9) came around the corner: “Svenja is down in the well!”
Child hurt his knee
Shocked, the adults jumped up and ran to the shaft. The nine-year-old was actually on the bottom. “We called her right away,” the family man recalls. Her answer made the initial shock disappear somewhat. “I hurt my knee. It’s bleeding!” the girl shouted upstairs.
In view of autumn, it borders on a miracle! The child fell forty feet into the depths. There were several guardian angels with them. Svenja probably owes her life to the fact that there was almost a meter of water in the well. “Sometimes it’s just a few centimeters,” the homeowners know. In addition, numerous iron brackets have been fixed in the concrete.
Stepfather immediately climbed down
“Unthinkable if Svenja had collided with one of these hooks during her uncontrolled fall!” say the rescuers. Her stepfather was the first to reach the injured person and immediately climbed down. Plans to carry the girl upstairs themselves failed. So he waited for the fire brigade downstairs and kept Svenja afloat for so long. One of the comrades was tied up and brought first the girl and then the man back upstairs. Both were then taken to hospital for a check-up, where fortunately only minor injuries were found.
The fall happened while playing: On the way back to her parents, Svenja must have walked over the Styrofoam. “It was only there temporarily,” says the homeowner in the “Krone” interview. As part of railway works, he had to renovate the pump house, which can only be reached from the railway. “Otherwise there is always a solid concrete cover on the shaft”
Source: Krone
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