After being trapped in a well for four days, an eleven years old boy who was finally pulled from the bottom of an 80ft well has been put in intensive care and is expected to make a full recovery.
While playing in the backyard of his home, the embattled boy named Rahul Sahu, fell into the well in the Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh, India.
Emergency services who carried out a huge rescue operation, dug a tunnel a couple of feet wide next to the well to try and pull Rahul out.
The rescue effort was delayed by bad weather and the unearthing of poisonous snakes and scorpions through the digging.
But after 105 hours of effort Rahul – who reportedly has speech difficulties and is hard of hearing – was pulled out of the hole at 11pm on Tuesday, June 14.
They found he was alive and breathing, and he was immediately taken into the care of two ambulances waiting at the scene.
It is thought he was kept company by a snake and a frog while he was stuck.
An oxygen pipe was fed down the well to give him fresh air, and he was passed down food like bananas.
The chief minister of Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh Baghel, said: “With everyone’s prayers and the relentless, dedicated efforts of the rescue team, Rahul Sahu has been brought out safely.
“It is our wish that he recovers completely as soon as possible. Our boy is brave. A snake and a frog were his companions for 104 hours.
“Today the whole of Chhattisgarh is celebrating… we all wish for his return from hospital soon.
“Congratulations and thanks again to all the team involved in this operation.”
The boy is said to be in intensive care in Apollo Hospital in Bilaspur, but he is in a stable condition.
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