According to local media, the cat had fallen into the large well at around 5pm while members of the Kale family entered the poisonous space in a bid to rescue the feline.
In a tragic incident on Tuesday (Apr 9), five members of the same family died in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra while rescuing a cat that had fallen into an abandoned well. The Ahmedabad district administration said the five bodies were removed from the well by late Tuesday night and one victim was rushed to a government hospital. The victim is in stable condition now.
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According to local media, the cat had fallen into the large well at around 5pm while members of the Kale family entered the poisonous space in a bid to rescue the feline.
Police said the tragedy took place when one of them entered the well to rescue a cat which had fallen in it and others followed suit in an effort to rescue him as he got trapped.