They rescued the 10-year-old boy who fell into a well in India and was trapped 24 meters deep for 104 hours.
Rahul Sahu, the 10-year-old boy who had been trapped in a 24-meter-deep well in India since Friday, was finally rescued Tuesday night (Wednesday morning in Spain) after 100 hours of strenuous efforts to get to the. The whole country sighed as 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 end of a rescue operation deemed “titanic” by Indian authorities as rescue teams had to remove thousands of tons of earth and rock in painful conditions until they managed to drill a gallery connected to the well. The little boy will be admitted to a hospital in Raipur where he will receive “special care”, a spokesman for the state government of Chhattisgarh said.
The media will highlight the courage of Rahul, the young deaf-mute who spent more than four days without being able to venture into a damp and dark hole “without losing his nerve”. Last Friday, he accidentally fell into the well dug near his home in the village of Pihird, in eastern India. It is the quintessential open craft pool for agricultural work, many of which are later uncovered and the cause of dozens of accidents each year.
Apparently the boy was playing in the yard when he fell through the hole. Apparently, his body bumped into the walls during the descent, slowing his speed and helping him avoid serious injuries. Rahul was trapped in the hole, unable to move, let alone climb walls slippery with mud and damp. The image later taken with a small camera showed the minor trapped and with his arms above his head overwhelming the country, which began to count the hours of the rescue in a real race against the clock.
“It has been a daunting operation that has lasted 104 hours,” the government spokesperson explained in a message on social networks. About 150 soldiers and civilians took that time to open a gallery to where Rahul was staying. While work started at a good pace, the dig was complicated when rescuers encountered a “very hard” bed of stone, according to the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The difficulties at one point aroused fears that Rahul would lose his strength before the end of the rescue. Aside from drilling into the rock, the rescuers had to deal with bad weather – the rain turned the works into a veritable swamp – and the danger represented by hundreds of venomous snakes and scorpions that appeared with the earthworks. A snake even fell into the well where the child was.
Rahul managed to make it clear to the doctors, through a camera that had fallen from outside, that he was okay, though weak and hungry. Rescuers were able to deliver him some fruit. His family never separated from him and took turns talking to him using a microphone.
Thousands of people have been glued to television, the broadcasts of which showed workers with attentive faces and huge drills working piece by piece. After 90 hours, the doctors were aware that the young man was already going through very weak moments, despite the fact that the teams managed to put in an air tube through which he could breathe fresh air. Fourteen hours later, at dusk, authorities announced the success of the rescue and shared footage of Rahul on a stretcher going outside and then lying on a hospital bed surrounded by smiling doctors.
Source: La Verdad
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