A minor girl who was trapped in a dry borewell for nearly 54 hours was found dead on Monday night at Jhunjarawadi village in Karnataka's Belagavi district, a rescue team official said on Tuesday morning.
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"The rescue team members found six-year-old Kaveri dead and buried in mud around 11.50 p.m. at about 30 feet in the borewell pipe. She fell and remained stuck since Saturday evening," a member of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told the media. The incident took place at the Jhunjarawadi village of the Athani taluk, located about 640km Bengaluru.
The NDRF team from Pune recovered Kaveri's decomposed body from the borewell through a parallel tunnel. It took the team over two days to drill the rocky terrain.
"We shifted the body in an ambulance to a state-run hospital at Athani for autopsy before handing it over to Kaveri's parents," said the official.
The tragedy took place on Saturday evening when the 6-year-old who was playing with her friends in a farm near her house, accidentally slipped and fell into the open borewell. The borewell was left open after its owner failed to find water.
"We have registered an FIR (First Information Report) against the absconding owner (Shankarappa) of the borewell and the farm land on which it was left abandoned after it dried up due to drought and scorching summer," Belagavi Superintendent of Police Ravikanthe Gowda said.
Kaveri's mother who seemed inconsolable told the media that no other child should meet the fate of her young child.
"We appeal to the state government to shut all open and dry borewells anywhere in the state so that no other child will die like my dear Kaveri," said Savita.
Meanwhile, Satish Jarkiholi, the Small-Scale Industries Minister of Karnataka, a native of the Belagavi district lamented her death. He said, "It's a tragic incident which should not have occurred. Our heart-felt condolences to her bereaved family even as the entire state mourns for her."
