3-year-old rescued from well in China
- 13 years ago
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STORY: A rescue team in eastern China struggled to pull a three-year-old boy from a well shaft on Monday, according to state media.
The boy had been playing with friends when he fell down the abandoned well on farmland near Heze City in eastern China's Shandong province, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Local villagers had tried to pull him out by lowering down a rope but failed. Though he was able to hold onto the rope until the firefighters arrived, around an hour after he fell in.
Medical staff were called, bringing an oxygen cylinder to ensure that there was enough oxygen supply down the well as the boy began to get tired, CCTV said.
The rescue equipment was too large for the well, which was only 45 centimeters (18 inches) in diameter, CCTV said. They attempted to send one member of their team down the well, but he could not fit down the shaft, it added.
Eventually, the team lowered a harness down on a rope and asked the boy to wrap it around his arm. They then lowered down a pole with a hook, hooked onto his clothes and pulled him out to safety, before he was taken to hospital.
STORY: A rescue team in eastern China struggled to pull a three-year-old boy from a well shaft on Monday, according to state media.
The boy had been playing with friends when he fell down the abandoned well on farmland near Heze City in eastern China's Shandong province, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Local villagers had tried to pull him out by lowering down a rope but failed. Though he was able to hold onto the rope until the firefighters arrived, around an hour after he fell in.
Medical staff were called, bringing an oxygen cylinder to ensure that there was enough oxygen supply down the well as the boy began to get tired, CCTV said.
The rescue equipment was too large for the well, which was only 45 centimeters (18 inches) in diameter, CCTV said. They attempted to send one member of their team down the well, but he could not fit down the shaft, it added.
Eventually, the team lowered a harness down on a rope and asked the boy to wrap it around his arm. They then lowered down a pole with a hook, hooked onto his clothes and pulled him out to safety, before he was taken to hospital.