Anxiety among parents, family members and villagers is growing as the rescue operation to save the 6-year old boy Tammanna Hatti, who fell into a borewell, moves into the second day. Hopes of the ‘borewell robot’ retrieving the boy faded on Monday.

Manje Gowda, who designed an indigenous robot for borewell rescues, arrived in Sulikeri village from Mandya, but his contraption couldn’t reach the trapped boy as the diameter of the robot was wider than the hole of the borewell after it reached 100 feet. The administration stopped the robot after two attempts as there was a risk of soil collapsing on the boy. “There is chance of dislodging the soil on to the boy if I try to push the robot harder into the borewell. So I will have to try and reduce the diameter of the robot after it reaches deep into the trench”, Manje Gowda said.

Rescue teams have been struggling to bring up the boy, with digging around the 160-feet-deep-well becoming a herculean task.



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