Under-construction well caves in in MP’s Chhindwara; woman among 3 trapped-OxBig News Network

Three people, including a woman, were trapped under the debris after an under-construction well caved in at a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district on Tuesday, police said.

The incident occurred at Khunajhir Khurd village late in the evening and a rescue operation is on, they said.

SP Ajay Pandey said all three — two men and a woman — are alive and efforts are on to pull them out of the debris.

After getting information about the collapse of the under-construction well, State Disaster Emergency Response Force and police teams reached the spot and launched a rescue operation using earthmoving machines, he said.