6-year-old boy who fell into borewell in Punjab's Hoshiarpur dies; CM Bhagwant Mann announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia for kin

The nine-inch-wide borewell shaft was covered with a jute bag and could not withstand the weight of the 6-year-old boy and gave in, causing him to fall into the borewell on Sunday morning in Punjab.

Hoshiarpur: A six-year-old boy, who fell into a 300-foot-deep borewell on Sunday, died though he was taken out of it after a seven-hour-long rescue operation at Khiala Bulanda village near Bairampur here. The death of Rithik Roshan is a stark reminder of a similar shocking incident two years ago in Sangrur district where two-year-old Fatehvir Singh had died after he fell into a 150-foot-deep abandoned borewell.

Hoshiarpur Deputy Commissioner Sandeep Hans said the entire episode will be investigated as after the Sangrur incident it was decided that no borewell would be kept open in future. Rithik was playing in a field and he climbed a borewell shaft when some stray dogs started chasing him.

Punjab | The administration and the Army helped a lot and tried their best in the rescue operation. When the child was taken out, it seemed that the child would survive but he died due to suffocation, Punjab Minister Brahm Shankar Jimpa said

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The nine-inch-wide borewell shaft was covered with a jute bag and could not withstand the weight of the boy and gave in, causing him to fall into the borewell on Sunday morning.