Locals protest against ‘slow rescue’
Hundreds of aggrieved locals in Shahjahanpur today vandalised a few makeshift shanties protesting the “slow rescue operation”, after four-year-old Jihad was found 23 hours after he fell into a deep well shaft there.
The agitated crowd also demanded resignation of State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal for his statement where he said: “From what we have seen from the footage of the camera, we can say there is no-one there.”
The minister’s statement came after 11 hours since the rescue operation began.
Jihad allegedly fell inside the 17-inch diameter shaft, around 40 yards from his house in Shahjahanpur, at about 4:00pm yesterday while playing with other children.
Soon after the fire service postponed official rescue operation this afternoon, volunteers brought out the child’s body from the well using a net at 3:05pm.
Locals immediately burst out into fury and blamed the administration for the slower rescue operation.
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