In a dramatic scene recorded on video, emergency workers rescued a seven-year-old boy who had fallen into an empty well in eastern Uzbekistan on Friday.
The responders were summoned after a homeowner’s son fell into a 40-meter-deep, 90-centimeter-diameter, waterless well in the yard of a house in Qurghontepa district in the Andijan region, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement.
The ministry said on social media that, “as a result of rescue operations carried out using special equipment and tools, the child was safely pulled out of the well. The child is currently in good condition. He was taken to the hospital for a medical examination.”
Video and photographs of the incident show several rescuers pulling on a rope at the edge of the well, and also show the boy being carried away and checked by a doctor. His face is blurred to mask his identity.
(Video courtesy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations)
