India, July 1 -- The four-year-old boy who fell into a 220-foot-deep open borewell in Haryana's Ambala district on Tuesday morning was pulled out dead early on Wednesday following a 21-hour multi-agency rescue operation.

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

Dr Rishi Kamboj, medical officer at the hospital's Trauma Centre, said the body arrived at around 4am. The post-mortem revealed multiple injuries to his head, chest, and knees. Dr Kamboj said that the cause of death was a combination of these traumatic injuries and drowning, as doctors found muddy water inside th...