CHANDIGARH: The latest report suggests that a 5-year-old girl died after falling into a 50-feet-deep borewell in Harsinghpura village in Haryana's Karnal district.

The girl, who was trapped for almost 16 hours in the borewell, was taken out by the NDRF team through a rescue operation that lasted for several hours.

Though the girl was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, she was declared dead by the doctors.

She fell in the borewell belonging to her family while playing in the fields on Sunday in Gharaunda area, a police official said.

After her family realised that she was missing, they launched a search for the child, but then found that she had fallen into the borewell, he said.

The district administration and the police were informed and a rescue operation was launched. Later, the NDRF was also informed, the official said.

Oxygen was being supplied inside the borewell and the rescuers used a camera to check on the child through which they saw her foot. An audio recording of her parents' voice was also played to give her a sense of security, the police said.

Last week, two-year-old Sujith, was pulled out dead from a deep borewell shaft in Tamil Nadu's Thiruchirappalli district after an unsuccessful rescue operation that lasted over four days.

In March, an 18-month old boy was rescued from a borewell in Haryana's Hisar district, two days after he had fallen into it.