A tragic incident occurred in a village in the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of a man and his 12-year-old nephew. According to police, the two victims fell into a nearly 30-foot-deep pit near a tubewell, where the man, Rajendra, was extracting bricks. The incident occurred when a large portion of soil suddenly collapsed, causing Rajendra and his nephew, Gaurav, to fall into the pit.
Gaurav was sitting on the edge of the pit at the time of the collapse. Both victims were buried under the debris, prompting a rescue operation to be launched with the help of a JCB machine. Rajendra was pulled out of the pit after considerable effort and rushed to a hospital, where he died during treatment.
Rescuers then worked to carefully extract Gaurav from the debris, a process that took several hours. Despite being taken to a hospital by ambulance, Gaurav could not be saved. The bodies of the two victims have been sent for post-mortem examination, police said.
