Even after an overnight nerve-racking drive, rescuers could not yet find any trace of the four-year-old boy, who was believed to have slipped into a 600-foot deep pipe of an abandoned railway pump at Shahjahanpur Railway Colony on Friday. “We have dropped a high resolution camera inside the well but could not get a sight of the four-year-old boy till early morning. But still we are trying out level best,” Abdul Halim, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD), said on Saturday morning. After sighting the photo clip, it is found that there were some wastes, including visiting cards and cock sheets, inside the pipe, he added. “We’ll continue our drive and try to confirm if there is presence of any human being inside the pipe,” he said further. Besides, the rescuers sent an iron cage inside the pipe around 8:45 am on Saturday, in an effort, if possible, to pull out the body. However, the family members of the four-year-old boy claimed that Jihad is inside the pipe. Jihad, son of Nasir Uddin of the railway colony, suddenly slipped into the deep pipe around 4:30 pm on Friday while playing near the abandoned pump house, said officials at Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) control room. Earlier, the rescuers’ efforts to detect the position of Jahid with a sophisticated GoPro camera 11 hours after his fall also turned futile as the picture shown seemed to be of a sack or clothes. Contacted, FSCD assistant director (Dhaka) Rafiqul Islam said they had first tried to rescue Ziad with the help of a rope and a sack but it went in vain. “The mouth of the pipe is only 16-17-inch in diameter. Besides, it was very difficult to climb up for the child holding a rope,” he added. Some food, juice and mineral water were also dropped into the pipe along with a torchlight. They were also constantly providing oxygen into the pipe to keep the boy alive. – UNB, Dhaka.
