An elephant fell into a ditch in Surajpur around 11 on Monday morning.
The extremely ‘cute’ pachyderm’s struggle for survival was picked up on social media, with the news quickly going viral.
There was no way the elephant would have survived if some headstrong contributors hadn’t come to its aid.
The helpless baby elephant’s ordeal came to an end when forest officials brought the machinery required for the heavy job to the location.
Some pictures emerged in which the baby elephant can be seen trying to escape from deep down the well.
The calf was drenched in the mud. However, all is well that ends well. It is still unknown what will become of the baby; its mother was not found anywhere.
In another bizarre incident that happened two months ago, two elephants fell into a well at Lalka hamlet in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, and around 120 pachyderms cordoned off the area.
The locals were given flaming torches from the forest personnel. Unfortunately, keepers and forest officials couldn’t save the two elephants because there was a small herd, with one of them giving birth to its young.
The event spread panic in the area and forced some people to evacuate their homes.
This was not the first of its kind incident to occur in the area.
Jasim Ahmed, the additional conservator of Forest, had claimed that there are as many as 14 open pits in the area.
He had said that some of them were filled with earth after Forest Minister Pramila Rani visited the site.
