Vandana S

Vandana Singh became famous at 27 months of age when she fell in a 45 ft. deep dry borewell in the Taj Mahal town of Agra on 25 March 2008, to be rescued by a team of 40 soldiers of the Engineering Corps after 28 hours of intense struggle against shifting mud and oxygen deprivation in the deep trench dug beside the borewell to reach the stuck girl through a horizontal tunnel.
Vandana had been playing with her elder sister outside their house in the Saiyyan town of Agra district on 25 March, 2008 at 6 pm IST, when she accidentally stepped on the jute-bags covering a failed borewell dug about a month back. Being 10-inches in diameter, the hole was wide enough for the girl to slide inside, shrieking in terror as her parents rushed out to save her only to find her trapped 45 feet down in the bore well, luckily saved from sliding further down by the jute-bags that crammed up in the hole under her.
The Army, which joined the rescue operation early the next morning, had succeeded in digging a parallel pit, from which it was able to enter and rescue the girl.
TV channels beamed live coverage of rescue efforts since morning as many onlookers waited with bated breath after Vandana was located below the borewell, she was brought out a little after 9 pm IST and was rushed in an ambulance to a nearby hospital for observation.
Authorities later said that an inquiry would be instituted into how the unused borewell was left unfilled.
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