Stuck in an over 120-foot deep borewell for 109 hours, a two-year-old toddler Fatehveer Singh was declared dead after being pulled Tuesday morning in Sangrur district.
With his hands clamped with a rope, Fatehveer Singh was brought out after the operation to rescue him through a parallel tunnel dug up closeby failed. He was flown to PGI Chandigarh via road, where he was declared dead.
Moments, after he was pulled out at 5am, the family members, meanwhile, had apprehended that they did not see any movement in the child’s body and lost all hopes. He was declared dead two hours later.
Fatehveer’s family performed his last rites at his native village, Sharon, in Sangrur district.
Soon after the child’s death, angry locals blocked the roads in different towns of the districts accusing the government of apathy. Locals asked why was the child pulled out of the the same borewell through in which he fell even when a parallel borewell was dug for his rescue.