3-year-old girl rescued from Faridabad borewell after 10 hours dies

The child fell into the 12-inch-wide borewell around 6pm on Sunday while playing on a tractor with other children.

Updated on: Sep 29, 2026, 08:52:16 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A three-year-old girl who fell into a 250-foot-deep abandoned borewell in Faridabad’s Sihi died after being pulled out following a nearly 10-hour rescue operation, police and rescue officials said on Monday.

Rescue team present at the site where a three-year-old fell into a borewell at Sihi Village, in Faridabad. (File Photo/ANI)

The child fell into the 12-inch-wide borewell around 6pm on Sunday while playing on a tractor with other children. She was found stuck upside down at a depth of about 170 feet.

Rescue operations

Police, fire department personnel, Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) officials and the State Disaster Response Force began rescue operations before an NDRF team arrived around 9.05pm. Officials said oxygen was supplied continuously into the borewell.

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NDRF deputy commandant Kunal Tiwari said a camera lowered into the borewell showed muddy water at 120 feet. Rescuers later spotted the child’s feet and improvised O-rings using metal rods and rappelling ropes to secure them. An L-hook was also used to support her head.

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She was pulled out around 3.50am and rushed to a private hospital, where she was declared dead. Police said an autopsy report is awaited.

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15-year-old borewell

MCF executive engineer Sanjeev Kumar said the borewell was at least 15 years old and had been sealed after an overhead water tank was demolished, but it was unclear when or by whom the seal was removed. Officials resealed it with concrete.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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