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A Fire force official said that by morning half of the 55-year-old victim’s body was cleared from the soil and some more time would be required to bring him out from the well.
The official said the water at the bottom of the well and continuous falling of soil from above were the major hurdles in the operation which had commenced as a rescue effort on Saturday morning.
As all efforts to dredge out the water using machines were not successful and as soil kept falling from upper portions of the well, a group having expertise in working in wells of 100 feet or more depth came from Kollam district on Sunday night.
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A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team had also reached the spot at around midnight, but it could not do anything, the official added.
The victim, identified as Maharajan, had been residing in the district for several years.
He was buried under the soil while he was fixing rings inside the well at Mukkola near Vizhinjam, police said.
Information regarding the incident was received around 9.30 am on Saturday and from then Vizhinjam police, Fire services personnel and local people had worked to extricate Maharajan from the almost 100-feet-deep well.