According to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, another body was recovered from a 40-foot-deep well in Ganj Basoda, Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district, bringing the total number of people killed in the accident to three. “In the unfortunate incident of Ganj Basoda, two bodies were found till late night, one body has been taken out this morning. I am constantly in touch with the administration at the spot and monitoring the rescue operations,” Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in a series of tweets.
“Minister in charge of Vidisha @VishvasSarang Ji was present at the spot throughout the night as the representative of the state government. Under his supervision, the rescue teams are engaged in rescuing the trapped people. The team of Commissioner, IG, Collector, SP, NDRF, SDRF is helping people at the spot,” Chouhan added.
He also stated that the state government has decided to provide financial assistance of Rs. 5 lakh to the families of the deceased, as well as Rs. 50,000 and free treatment to the injured.
Vishvas Kailash Sarang, the MP’s medical education minister, who was sent to Ganj Basoda by Chouhan, said 19 people were rescued after falling into a well on Thursday night during a rescue operation to pull out an eight-year-old girl.
Chouhan had previously expressed his condolences for the accident’s fatalities and stated that rescue efforts are still ongoing. “Have received information that two people have lost their lives in Ganjbasoda. Their bodies have been recovered. I pay homage to those who lost their lives in the accident and pray to God to give peace to the departed souls. The rescue work is still on and I am continuously monitoring the situation,” Chouhan tweeted.
The dead and injured were among the nearly 40 people who gathered to watch rescuers try to pull the girl out of the well after she fell in while playing on Thursday evening. As people tried to save her, the well’s boundary wall caved in, and they fell into the well, according to Bhopal division’s additional director general of police Sai Manohar.
Vishvas Kailash Sarang, the MP’s medical education minister, who was sent to Ganj Basoda by Chouhan, said shortly before midnight that about 23 people had been rescued and 13 had been admitted to hospital. The guardian minister of Vidisha district, 50 kilometres from Bhopal, has ordered a high-level investigation into the accident, according to Sarang.
The girl was still in the well, according to a police officer, and it was unclear whether she was injured when the well’s boundary wall collapsed.
According to previous reports, the rescue operation was put on hold for a while after a tractor they were using fell into the well. People were rescued from the well by members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and state-level disaster response forces.
