None has been trapped inside the abandoned 600-ft deep water pump pipe at capital's Shahjahanpur Railway Colony, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan has said. The announcement came after 11-hours since the commencement of the operation for rescuing a four-year old boy who was said to have been trapped inside the pipe.
Minister Asaduzzaman made the announcement at around 3am Saturday after the rescue team had pushed a high-tech camera down inside the pipe .
However the rescue operartion was on till filling up the report at around 4am. A high official of fire service told that they would continue the operation until they are 100 percent sure.
Mother of the child sat beside the pipe and she believed her son is inside and alive, she was pleading rescuers to bring her son.
Earlier on Friday, Nasir Uddin, father of the four-year old Jihad, said his son fell into the 600-ft deep pipe at Shahjahanpur Railway Colony area while playing with his friends at around 3.30pm.
A rescue team, combining of Fire Service & Civil Defence and Dhaka WASA, begun its operation soon after Nasir's complain. Fire service official Major Shakil Nawaz said the hole is 400-ft deep. Later, he said it is 600-ft deep.
The high-tech camera could not trace any human body in the 600-ft pipe. The camera could pick up minute detail inside the pipe and it showed small organisms like lizard and frog and even tiny papers. The camera has the capacity to go 5000-meter under the surface.
The railways authorities put the pipe for setting up a water pump for the colony people, Major Shakil said.
"But it was left abandoned as dirty water was coming out from the pump."