A 2.5-year-old child drowned after falling into a pit dug up to install a water pipeline by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) near Gollarahatti in Magadi, Bengaluru, said an official on Tuesday.
The local authorities did not place any warning sign board at the spot and ignored safety measures resulting in the fatal incident.
An FIR was registered against the BWSSB engineer and the contractor for negligence at work.
Meanwhile, unfortunately, borewell incidents keep happening in India. Such incidents often surface despite guidelines in place.
In the last month, a 7-year-old boy was rescued nearly 24 hours after he fell into a borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district but he could not survive. In another similar incident in March, a rescue operation of at least nine hours to save a five-year-old boy who fell into a borewell in a village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district proved futile as he was pulled out dead.
(Report by Raghaw)
