Jihad\\\'s body retrieved from pipe after 23 hrs

Child Jihad was rescued on Saturday afternoon, 23 hours after he slipped into an abandoned 600-foot deep pipe of a tubewell in the city’s Shahjahanpur Railway Colony. After an overnight nerve-racking drive by rescuers failed to even trace the minor boy, fell into the old 14-inch-diametre pipe on Friday afternoon, local people claimed that they retrieved the body of the 4-year-old boy from the well a few minutes after the Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel abandoned their 2nd attempt to lift the boy out of the pipe dead or alive today. However, firefighters claimed that they lifted the boy out of the pipe on Saturday afternoon. A few minutes before Jihad was rescued from the pipe around 2pm, fire service officials declared that they postponed their new rescue operation which they had started around 10am on Saturday. Local people said that they rescued the boy a few minutes after the firefighters left the railway's pump house. The locals also claimed that they took the body to Dhaka Medical College Hospital soon after he was lifted out of the bottom of the rusty, steel-made pipe of the old pump. Jihad, son of Nasir Uddin of the railway colony, suddenly slipped into the deep pipe around 4:30pm on Friday while playing near the pump house. according to a news agency.