Prayer on every lip as rescuers try to pull out Jihad

It would be a miracle in every sense of the word if the boy trapped down a deep tube-well in Dhaka is rescued alive.

News Deskbdnews24.com
Published : 26 Dec 2014, 05:53 PM
Updated : 27 Dec 2014, 03:05 AM

There is no precedent of anyone being pulled out alive from so deep a well - believed to be several hundred feet deep - as the 4-year old is in.

'Jihad' fell into the 14-inch wide pipe adjacent to a playground at the Shahjahanpur Railway Colony on Friday.

Such incidents had not made headlines in the past.

Last year, a 9-year-old boy fell into a 200-foot borewell in India's Rajasthan. Police and army could not rescue him even after 20 hours of efforts.

Fire service official Maj Shakil Newaz, leading Jihad's rescue, says they are trying to pull out the pipe.

Jihad has responded to rescuers' cry.

He has been supplied with oxygen and milk.

However, Jihad is becoming less responsive as time passes. Rescuers have arranged for light inside the well and are trying to send a camera down there.

In 2006, 6-year-old Prince was rescued two days after falling into a 60-feet well in India's Haryana.