A 30-year-old man who had fallen into a 40-foot deep borewell at a Delhi Jal Board water treatment plant here was pulled out dead after a nearly 12-hour-long rescue operation on Sunday, March 10. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Water Minister Atish said, "It is with great sadness I share the news that the man who fell into the borewell has been found dead by the rescue team."
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According to initial information, the deceased was a male aged around 30 years. "How he entered the borewell room, how he fell inside the borewell – this will be investigated by the police. "I thank the NDRF team who made every possible effort in the rescue operation for many hours," she said in the post.
Around 1 am, information was received that a person fell into the borewell at the Delhi Jal Board Plant in west Delhi's Keshopur Mandi area. The rescue efforts were led by teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Delhi Fire Services (DFS).