China rescuers save 3-year-old boy who fell into well

Rescuers in eastern China have performed a dramatic televised rescue of a three-year-old boy who fell about 10 meters (33 feet) into a narrow well.

The boy had been playing when he slipped and tumbled into the shaft that in total was 90 meters (295 feet) deep in the city of Weifang in Shandong province. Complicating the rescue, the well mouth was only 30 centimeters (11 inches) in diameter

Over two hours on March 31, rescuers pumped in oxygen from canisters and used sensors and cameras to communicate and monitor his condition.

He was finally pulled to safety after he grasped a loop at the end of a rope and was declared exhausted but healthy after an examination. China's state television station CCTV broadcast pictures of the rescue.

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This sheds light into a similar incident which happened two years ago in Dhaka. On December 26, 2014 four-year-old Jihad fell down the 300-foot well shaft while playing with other children in the capital's Shahjahanpur Railway Colony. After frantic efforts his body was pulled out by a group of volunteers the following day, shortly after the government agencies called off the rescue bid saying there was no sign of the boy inside the well.

It shows that Bangladesh still has a long way to go in terms of emergency rescue services.