India, July 1 -- A four-year-old boy who fell into a 220-foot-deep open borewell in Haryana's Ambala district on Tuesday morning died early on Wednesday, shortly after rescuers pulled him out following a 21-hour multi-agency operation, police said.

The child, Nirvair Singh, was brought to the surface at around 3.45am and immediately rushed by ambulance to the sub-divisional civil hospital in Ambala Cantonment, where doctors declared him dead.

A joint team from the army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) finally managed to retrieve him using specialised hooks and equipment after multiple attempts. The rescue teams had been planning to dig a parallel shaft on Wednesday if conventional retrie...