AP: 2-yr-old boy trapped in borewell in Guntur district

A massive operation has been launched by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), police and the administration to rescue a two-year-old boy who fell into an open borewell near Vinukonda in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh today.

The boy, identified as Chandrasekhar, was playing near a cattle shed at Ummadivaram village when he accidentally fell into borewell at around three this afternoon, police said.

His mother, who was tending cattle nearby, did not notice that the boy was playing precariously close to the defunct borewell which had been left uncovered.

The boy was found trapped over 15 feet down in the borewell shaft, a police official told

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