Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Video Credit: CEN
This is the moment a screaming one-year-old girl is dug out from the earth after falling into a 16-foot well with her dog and becoming trapped.
The incident took place in a rural area of the village of Senora Pujio, in the department of La Banda, in the north central Argentina province of Santiago del Estero.
The 20-month-old girl, named in reports as Ana Belen Morales, reportedly fell into the five-metre (16-foot) well with her dog. Police sources reported that local resident had dug the well in order to obtain drinking water.
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The girl’s neighbours called the police and officers found her father Claudio Morales, 35, lying on the ground trying to light up the area with his mobile phone pointing into the well.
The girl was heard crying from the well, so the police started an urgent operation to rescue her.
Rescuers of police of the province of Santiago del Estero attending the emergency managed to give oxygen to the girl inside the well.
Meanwhile, the officers from the canine division planned to dig a parallel well to reach Ana Belen. Extracting the girl from the same place where she had fallen down the well was impossible as her legs were stuck inside the well.
In the video, rescuers can be seen using a mechanical digger to create the parallel well. Rescuers then use spades to reacht he girl, before pulling her to safety as she is heard crying after a three-hour operation.
Local media report she was hugging her pet dog Chicho during the rescue and the pooch was rescued as well.
Vanesa, the mother of the girl told local media: “I think it was a miracle of love, because no matter the religion, we all joined and asked God for the same thing: to save my daughter”.
The tot is reportedly in a healthy condition and back home with her family.
The prosecution started an investigation in order to find out the causes of the incident.
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