When residents from the remote village of Kirauli in India heard the cries of what sounded like a newborn baby, they couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. However, when one man looked down into an old, dried out well, he couldn’t believe what he saw at the bottom.
The baby was just five days old, but the villagers had no idea how long she had been in the well and had no idea how to safely rescue her, so they decided to call police for help. “We immediately made a distress call to the police, after which a team of cops came within six to seven minutes and started rescue operations,” villager Mukesh said.
When sub-inspector Virpal Singh heard the baby girl’s cries and saw her wrapped in a white cloth at the bottom of the well, he didn’t think twice about jumping down.
“We were surprised to see the girl in the 50-ft-deep well. Wasting no time I asked the local villagers to give us a rope which we used to tie it around the waist and I went down deep into the well to rescue the baby girl,” he said.
“The baby was gravely injured and was struggling to breathe. I gave the baby to my junior colleague who rush her in the police jeep to the nearest community health care centre,” Virpal said. “It was all a team effort to save the child, my team worked well.”
The baby, who was suffering from a ruptured lung due to the 50-foot fall, a skin infection, and possibly other internal injuries, was then brought to a hospital to be cared for in the pediatric ICU, and is luckily getting the treatment she needs.
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