Rescue teams found the lifeless body of Srishti, a two-year-old girlafter more than 50 hours of operations to remove it from the 100 meter well deep in which it was trapped last Monday in central India. The workers took the minor out of the well last night and she was quickly transferred to a hospital, where the doctors declared that the girl had died about 40 hours earlier due to suffocation.

“Despite continued efforts, we have unfortunately not been able to save the girl. According to the autopsy, the body is in a fairly decomposed stateAshish Tiwari, chief executive of the Sehore district in Madhya Pradesh state, where the rescue operation took place, told the media. Authorities have filed charges against the owner of the farm where the well was located, as well as against its person in charge, for not having covered its opening, assured the Sehore Police Superintendent, Mayak Awasthi.

A warning that the head of Government of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh, conveyed to the rest of the well owners, insisting that “an investigation will be carried out against him and due measures will be taken against anyone who leaves a well uncovered“. Srishti fell into the well around 1:00 p.m. local time (7:30 GMT) on Monday when she was playing nearby, after which residents of the area alerted the authorities.

Teams from the State Disaster Response Force (SDERF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) participated in the operation from the beginning, later joined by members of the Army and a robot specialized in this type of rescue . Although the girl was initially at a depth of about 12 meters, the vibration of the excavating machines caused it to slide up to 30 meters.

In addition, the hardness of the terrain made the work difficult from the beginning, and the workers did not take long to rule out the option of digging a tunnel to where the minor was, to finally take her out through the main entrance of the well. India experienced a similar operation a year ago, when 10-year-old Rahul fell into a well in the north of the country, although he managed to be rescued alive after an operation that lasted more than 100 hours. However, another two-year-old boy died at the end of October 2019 in the south of the country after falling into another well about 30 meters deep.