Tag: Rescue

  • MP: Rescue ops underway for 3rd day to save girl who fell into borewell, robotic experts join efforts

    By PTI

    SEHORE: Rescue agencies were still making hectic efforts for the third day to save a two-and-a-half-year-old girl who fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district, an official said on Thursday.

    A team of robotic experts also joined the operation on Thursday morning to rescue the girl, who fell into the 300-feet deep borewell in a field at Mungavali village on Tuesday afternoon, he said.

    Oxygen was being supplied to the girl in the borewell through a pipe, district administration officials said.

    With more than 46 hours passing away since the incident, the task to pull the girl out of the borewell has become more difficult as she has slipped further down and got stuck at a depth of nearly 100 feet, as per officials.

    A three-member robotic rescue team from Gujarat reached the site on Thursday morning to join the operation, the official said.

    “We have lowered a robot into the borewell to collect information and we are processing the data by scanning it to know the child’s condition. After processing the data, we will decide the next course of action on how to rescue the girl from the borewell,” the robotic team in-charge Mahesh Arya told reporters at the site.

    The girl, named Srishti, fell into the borewell at around 1 pm on Tuesday and since then efforts have been on to rescue her.

    She was initially stuck at a depth of about 40 feet in the borewell, but due to vibrations caused by machines engaged in the rescue operation, she slipped further down to about 100 feet, making the task more difficult, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday.

    An Army team also joined the rescue operation, while teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) have already been working to rescue the girl, officials said.

    As many as 12 earth-moving and poclain machines are also currently engaged in the rescue operation, they said.

    CM Chouhan and a team of officials are in touch with the district authorities to supervise the rescue operation, they said.

    With the latest incident, the dangers posed by open and abandoned borewells have come to the fore again.

    On Saturday, a two-year-old girl slipped into a narrow borewell in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district and got stuck at a depth of 20-feet.

    She died despite hectic rescue efforts by multiple agencies for 19 hours, an official earlier said.

    In 2009, the Supreme Court issued guidelines for preventing fatal accidents of children falling into abandoned borewells.

    The revised guidelines issued by the court in 2010 included setting up barbed wire fencing around the well during construction, using steel plate covers fixed with bolts over the well assembly and filling up of borewells from the bottom to the ground level.

    SEHORE: Rescue agencies were still making hectic efforts for the third day to save a two-and-a-half-year-old girl who fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district, an official said on Thursday.

    A team of robotic experts also joined the operation on Thursday morning to rescue the girl, who fell into the 300-feet deep borewell in a field at Mungavali village on Tuesday afternoon, he said.

    Oxygen was being supplied to the girl in the borewell through a pipe, district administration officials said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    With more than 46 hours passing away since the incident, the task to pull the girl out of the borewell has become more difficult as she has slipped further down and got stuck at a depth of nearly 100 feet, as per officials.

    A three-member robotic rescue team from Gujarat reached the site on Thursday morning to join the operation, the official said.

    “We have lowered a robot into the borewell to collect information and we are processing the data by scanning it to know the child’s condition. After processing the data, we will decide the next course of action on how to rescue the girl from the borewell,” the robotic team in-charge Mahesh Arya told reporters at the site.

    The girl, named Srishti, fell into the borewell at around 1 pm on Tuesday and since then efforts have been on to rescue her.

    She was initially stuck at a depth of about 40 feet in the borewell, but due to vibrations caused by machines engaged in the rescue operation, she slipped further down to about 100 feet, making the task more difficult, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday.

    An Army team also joined the rescue operation, while teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) have already been working to rescue the girl, officials said.

    As many as 12 earth-moving and poclain machines are also currently engaged in the rescue operation, they said.

    CM Chouhan and a team of officials are in touch with the district authorities to supervise the rescue operation, they said.

    With the latest incident, the dangers posed by open and abandoned borewells have come to the fore again.

    On Saturday, a two-year-old girl slipped into a narrow borewell in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district and got stuck at a depth of 20-feet.

    She died despite hectic rescue efforts by multiple agencies for 19 hours, an official earlier said.

    In 2009, the Supreme Court issued guidelines for preventing fatal accidents of children falling into abandoned borewells.

    The revised guidelines issued by the court in 2010 included setting up barbed wire fencing around the well during construction, using steel plate covers fixed with bolts over the well assembly and filling up of borewells from the bottom to the ground level.

  • Lucknow wall collapse: Rescue operation to pull out those trapped took 6 hours

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The police control room received a distress call in the wee hours of Friday regarding the people trapped under the debris of an under-construction boundary wall that had collapsed in the Dilkusha area here.

    The call made amidst heavy downpour at 3.24 am urged immediate intervention and help, police said.

    By 3.27 am, the message was passed on to the police station and the fire brigade, and in the next 15 minutes, the police force was walking in waist-deep water, looking for those trapped under the debris, they said.

    “As we reached the spot 15 minutes after the message was passed on to the police station, our first priority and effort were to locate the person who had made the call to the control room, and pull him out from the debris,” ACP Cantonment Anup Kumar Singh, who was also present at the spot of the incident, told PTI.

    “It was Golu, who had made the call to the police control room. After pulling him from the debris, he was sent to the Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee (Civil) Hospital,” he said.

    The fire brigade team also arrived on the spot and the wall was gradually broken and debris were removed.

    Following this the bodies were pulled out one by one, he added. The rescue operation continued till around 9.30 am, amidst rains, Singh said, adding that the rains slowed down around the same time the operation ended.

    ALSO READ| Heavy rains in UP: Nine killed as wall of Army enclave collapses in Lucknow

    Narrating the scene and situation in which, the police, fire brigade and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) carried out the rescue operation, Singh said, “The scene and situation were such that there was absolute darkness, no electricity, continuous rainfall and water up to waist-level high in which the rescue operation was carried out.

    ” Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Piyush Mordia had also reached the spot to oversee the rescue work, he added.”

    “Some labourers were living in huts outside an Army enclave in the Dilkusha area. Owing to heavy overnight rains, the boundary wall of the Army enclave collapsed,” Joint Commissioner of Police Mordia told PTI.

    “We reached the spot around 3 am. Nine bodies were pulled out from the debris. One person was rescued alive,” he said.

    LUCKNOW: The police control room received a distress call in the wee hours of Friday regarding the people trapped under the debris of an under-construction boundary wall that had collapsed in the Dilkusha area here.

    The call made amidst heavy downpour at 3.24 am urged immediate intervention and help, police said.

    By 3.27 am, the message was passed on to the police station and the fire brigade, and in the next 15 minutes, the police force was walking in waist-deep water, looking for those trapped under the debris, they said.

    “As we reached the spot 15 minutes after the message was passed on to the police station, our first priority and effort were to locate the person who had made the call to the control room, and pull him out from the debris,” ACP Cantonment Anup Kumar Singh, who was also present at the spot of the incident, told PTI.

    “It was Golu, who had made the call to the police control room. After pulling him from the debris, he was sent to the Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee (Civil) Hospital,” he said.

    The fire brigade team also arrived on the spot and the wall was gradually broken and debris were removed.

    Following this the bodies were pulled out one by one, he added. The rescue operation continued till around 9.30 am, amidst rains, Singh said, adding that the rains slowed down around the same time the operation ended.

    ALSO READ| Heavy rains in UP: Nine killed as wall of Army enclave collapses in Lucknow

    Narrating the scene and situation in which, the police, fire brigade and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) carried out the rescue operation, Singh said, “The scene and situation were such that there was absolute darkness, no electricity, continuous rainfall and water up to waist-level high in which the rescue operation was carried out.

    ” Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Piyush Mordia had also reached the spot to oversee the rescue work, he added.”

    “Some labourers were living in huts outside an Army enclave in the Dilkusha area. Owing to heavy overnight rains, the boundary wall of the Army enclave collapsed,” Joint Commissioner of Police Mordia told PTI.

    “We reached the spot around 3 am. Nine bodies were pulled out from the debris. One person was rescued alive,” he said.

  • ‘Our mission not complete till evacuation of last Indian citizen from Ukraine’, says envoy

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: “Whenever in life you feel things are becoming difficult, things are not moving, remember this day, February 26, and everything will be fine.”

    This is what Indian Ambassador to Romania, Rahul Shrivastava, told the Indian students on board the first evacuation flight from Bucharest just before it took off to Mumbai on Saturday. The Indians reached Romania from Ukraine via the Suceava border crossing as part of a coordinated evacuation mission by the Ministry of External Affairs and Indian embassies in Ukraine and Romania.

    In his two-minute address, Shrivastava urged the students to convey to their stranded friends whenever they talk to them that the entire Indian government team is working “day and night” to evacuate everyone from Ukraine.

    The envoy, a 1999-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) official, said India’s mission is not complete till it evacuates the last Indian citizen from Ukraine.

    “You are in the last leg of your journey back home where your relatives, friends and families would be waiting with open arms to welcome you. While you reach there, they will embrace, you embrace them, hug them,” he said.

    “But while you do that, when you are back in our motherland, you should also remember that your friends are still there (Ukraine). When you talk to your friends who are waiting to be evacuated, you should tell and assure them that the entire government of India team is working day and night including all officials here to evacuate everyone,” the envoy said.

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    He further added: “Our mission is not complete till we have taken the last person to India out of Ukraine. Wishing you a very safe journey back home.”

    In his address through the aircraft’s passenger address (PA) system, Shrivastava also thanked Air India and the flight’s crew members and wished all of them a very safe journey. All the students gave a big round of applause to the envoy’s brief remarks. Shrivastava said he just wanted to say “hello” to everyone before they leave.

    “Good morning my dear friends. My name is Rahul Shrivastava and I am your ambassador in Romania,” he introduced himself. “I know that you have come through a long and arduous road journey and the last thing in your mind is an announcement by the ambassador. Before you leave, I thought I would just say hello to you.”

    India on Friday managed to set up camp offices in Lviv and Chernivtsi towns in western Ukraine to facilitate the transit of Indians to Hungary, Romania and Poland. India also positioned teams of officials at Zahony border post in Hungary, Krakowiec as well as Shehyni-Medyka land border points in Poland, Vysne Nemecke in the Slovak Republic and Suceava transit point in Romania to coordinate the exit of Indian nationals from Ukraine.

    India is trying to evacuate its nationals through Ukraine’s land borders with Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Ukrainian government closed the country’s airspace following the Russian military offensive.

  • Air India plans to operate two flights to Bucharest to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Air India is planning to operate two flights to the Romanian capital Bucharest on Friday to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to a Russian military offensive, senior government officials said.

    Indian nationals who have reached the Ukraine-Romania border by road will be taken to Bucharest by officials of the Indian government so that they can be evacuated in the two Air India flights, they added.

    The Ukrainian airspace was closed for civil aircraft operations by the country’s authorities on Thursday morning and therefore, the evacuation flights are operating out of Bucharest.

    The two Air India flights will depart from Bucharest on Saturday, the officials said. Air India did not respond to PTI’s request for comments on the development. Around 20,000 Indians — mainly students — are currently stranded in Ukraine, the officials noted.

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    The distance between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the Romanian border is approximately 600 kilometres and it takes anywhere between eight and a half to 11 hours to cover the distance by road.

    The distance from the Ukraine-Romania border to Bucharest is approximately 500 kilometres and it takes anywhere between seven to nine hours to cover the distance by road.