India, July 1 -- A four-year-old boy who fell into a 220-foot-deep open borewell in Haryana's Ambala district died after being rescued following a 21-hour multi-agency operation early on Wednesday.

The boy, Nirvair Singh, was brought out of the borewell at around 3:45 am and was immediately rushed by ambulance to the Sub-Divisional Civil Hospital in Ambala Cantonment, where doctors declared him dead.

Singh was pulled out by a team from the Army, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), using hooks and special equipment, from the nine-inch-wide borewell after multiple failed attempts.

The rescuers were also planning to dig a parallel shaft on Wednesday if the attempts continued to fail, b...