Dramatic rescue saves Thai baby who fell down well

A babe miss has been rescued by authorities aft she fell down a heavy good successful confederate Thailand.

The 19-month-old kid fell down the 13m (42ft) heavy shaft portion playing connected Monday day successful Tak province, adjacent the Myanmar border.

Authorities launched an overnight rescue cognition aft the girl's parents - who had been moving successful a adjacent tract - raised the alarm.

She was taken to infirmary and treated for insignificant injuries, officials said.

"She has signs of fatigue but inactive has bully captious signs," section constabulary main Ratsaran Ketsoising told AFP.

Panic was sparked aft the babe miss - who is said to beryllium the girl of 2 Myanmarese migrants - fell done a 30cm (12in) wide spread astatine the apical of the well.

The baby's parents said they had taken her to enactment with them astatine a tapioca workplace successful the Khiri Rat sub-district. They said they had near her nether a histrion portion they worked.

But they raised the alarm aft they were incapable to find the kid during their interruption and heard cries coming from the adjacent well.

Rescue teams were forced to enactment done the nighttime utilizing a mechanical digger, with which they dug a 10m heavy pit adjacent to the good shaft.

Oxygen was pumped into the good to let the kid to breathe. Images astatine the country showed rescue workers successful hard hats moving astatine the bottommost of a heavy pit.

But authorities told section media that they feared that the good could illness successful connected itself and harm the kid if they continued to usage the digger, truthful they utilized hand-held shovels to region the last fewer metres of earth.

PBS Thailand reported that rescue workers reached the kid astatine astir 08:00 section clip (01:00 GMT), but were incapable to propulsion her retired immediately, arsenic she appeared to person suffered an wounded to her leg.

However, cheers erupted soon afterwards from the assembled rescue workers aft the miss was yet pulled from the well.

"We are truthful gladsome we could rescue him safely," recue idiosyncratic Chanachart Wancharernrung told reporters. "We person been trying since yesterday afternoon. We worked without sleep. Everyone helped out."