Father, son suffocate to death trying to retrieve ‘lota' from well in Palamu
Daltonganj: A father and son suffocated to death in a dry well while attempting to retrieve a stainless steel lota (small globular pot) at Sahiyara village under Hussainabad police station limits on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Jugal Rajwar (65) and Munna (37). Local sources said that the pot, belonging to Jugal, slipped into the well which was filled with rotten mahua fruits and other debris.
Jugal asked his son to retrieve it from the well. Munna descended into it with the help of a rope and began to climb back with the pot when he lost consciousness and fell back into the well. When Munna did not emerge, Jugal attempted to rescue him by descending into the well with the help of a rope.
But he met the same fate. Police said that the deaths occurred due to suffocation from noxious gas inside the well.
Sonu Kumar Choudhury, the officer in-charge of Hussainabad police station, said, "Both the bodies have been taken out of the well. It was a challenging task to extract the bodies from such a narrow, dirt-filled dry well, filled with filth and rotten mahua fruits. We used an oxygen cylinder and mask."
He added, "No villager dared to enter the well, even with the oxygen mask.
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The two bodies were retrieved with the help of an iron rod, rope, and human skill," the police officer said.
A post-mortem was conducted at the sub-divisional hospital in Hussainabad. Under the order of civil officials in Hussainabad, the dry well has been completely flattened. The police officer said, "The dry well has been flattened and filled with soil now to prevent any further loss of life."
Jugal was recently awarded a house under the Abuwa Awas Yojana and was very excited about it, but he lost his life along with his son over something as trivial as a lota, said police.
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