Chennai: Emergency efforts are on to rescue a two-year-old male child that fell into a 30-ft borewell in a house in a village near Manaparai town in Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu.

Officials from the fire service department are carrying out efforts to rescue the child.

Earthmoving equipments have been pressed into service to dig a pit near the borewell as a part of the rescue effort.

Speaking to a media, Tamil Nadu Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar said oxygen is continuously supplied into the borewell.

He said the boy is alive and officials on the spot are able to hear the baby crying.