Indian boy rescued from pit after two days
Soldiers carried a five-year-old boy back to ground level today, bringing to an end the child’s 50-hour ordeal stuck in a 60-foot-deep hole in northern India.
The boy, identified only as Prince, emerged from the hole in the arms of his rescuer and wrapped in a white towel to loud cheering from a crowd of thousands who had assembled around the hole.
The soldier immediately handed Prince to his mother.
Army rescuers dug a hole parallel to the one the boy fell into on Friday, then created a connecting passageway between the two.
The soldier reached Prince through the connecting pipe and, along with four other soldiers, took him back to ground level through the army-dug hole.
