Ludhiana, April 17 -- A labourer was rescued nearly five hours after he fell into a 70-foot-deep agricultural well on Godown Road, near Lalheri Road, in Khanna late on Wednesday evening, officials said. The victim, who went unnoticed for nearly two hours, was taken out of the well by fire brigade personnel after three hours of rescue operation.

The well is located near a tube well in an agricultural field about a kilometre from the main road. The man, identified as 40-year-old Akash, reportedly kept shouting for help, but his cries did not reach anyone. The incident came to light when a local farmer, Gurdeep Singh, arrived in his field for irrigation and heard him. "I saw him trapped inside the well, pleading for help. I alerted the poli...