Sujith rescue ops latest:Parallel borewell digging on to reach toddler

Four days - more than 65 hours have passed as rescue operations continue in Trichy on Monday to recover 2-year old Sujith Wilson out of a borewell, at a depth of 88 feet. To complicate rescue mission rigger machines have broken and underground solid rock structures. rescue initially began on Friday evening, 30 minutes after Sujith fell into well.

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Rescue ops underway to save Sujith

government is taking all steps to rescue boy. Various ncies and individuals with ir own inventories took a chance to rescue Sujith, but couldn't make it happen as he slipped from 26 feet to 70 feet on day 2. This happened due to vibration produced by earth-movers and slippery walls of empty bore well.  After trying out various methods to gain access to child, officials and rescue team decided to dig a parallel path, furr down to rescue child.

Rig machines were brought to spot and digging started on Sunday morning. But bles of machine couldn't penetrate solid rock structures which are at depth of 20 feet. Soon  bles of rigging machine were damd due to hard, solid rock sediments, slowing down process. y reached only 20 feet till this morning.

Here are photos from site:

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Rescue plan to access child

Authorities have installed a 1,200 horsepower borewell drilling machine to break rocks into pieces, which will help drilling machine to create a path measuring 1 meter in diameter, thus allowing fire and rescue teams to get into well. According to rescue plan, fire and rescue team aim to reach bottom of 98 feet and will n dig a horizontal path to reach actual bore well where toddler is stuck.

"We are t going to call off mission until we rescue Sujith.  work will continue despite rain," said Commissioner for revenue and ministration Rhakrishnan -  top official in charge of whole mission. Rhakrishnan also said "It will take around 12 hours to reach destined level in current rate and its subject to change according to rock structures," while he dressed media today morning from spot. Rain showers have been on and off at Nukattupatti vill where rescue is going on, making process even more harder.

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RE | TN: Operations underway to rescue toddler Sujith Wilson from borewell