Kurukshetra kid fights for life on B'Day : HindustanTimes.com

5-year-old boy falls into pit in Kurukshetra
Press Trust of India, Kurukshetra, July 23, 2006

As little Prince fights to keep alive more than 40 hours after he fell into a 60-feet-deep pit in this Haryana district, he is unaware that Sunday happens to also be his birthday.

Prince turns five on July 23, his anxious mother Karamjit said as rescuers tried frantically to dig a parallel tunnel to bring out the boy.

"I don't know when this ordeal will end," she said. Prince fell into the one-foot-wide pit on Friday evening while playing with friends

Karamjit said she was anxiously waiting for her son to come back.

It would be like a re-birth for him once he is rescued, said a villager, one of the hundreds who have gathered at the site at Hatheri village near Shahbad town of Kurukshetra to witness the mammoth rescue efforts.

A team of eight doctors is monitoring Prince's health through a closed-circuit TV camera lowered into the pit with a rope.

The doctor in-charge of the medical team said that the boy seemed fine despite being trapped for over 41 hours. He said that the boy was able to eat and drink Sunday morning and that was a positive sign.

With the news of the rescue operation spreading like wild fire, nearly 10,000 people, mostly from adjoining villages, reached the spot.

The police had to resort to mild cane charge to keep people at bay as they tried to get closer to the well where the boy was trapped.

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