Click to play videoAgra: Two-year old Sonu is still trapped in a borewell after nearly three days, and the rescue operation has suffered another disappointing setback.
Earth in the parallel pit caved in again even as the army was digging.
The rescue team had managed to dig 70 feet when the mudslide happened.
Sonu is stuck at about the same depth. The plan was to dig 70 feet and burrow horizontally to reach the child.
Now the army will have dig again from 50 feet. This is the second mudslide to hit the rescue operation.
Chief of Operations Lieutenant Colonel Kuljinder Singh who is heading the rescue mission to save Sonu said, “The biggest problem we are facing is the soil caving at number of places. Whenever we reach the base where we could get to Sonu, the soil starts caving in. Earlier it was in bits and pieces and last night we had reached a point very close to the point where we could have gone to Sonu but again the entire wall caved in.”
Sonu had fallen into a unmanned borewell on Thursday near Agra. The initial efforts of the local government's rescue team had not paid off and the army has taken over the rescue operation.
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