Toddler in China rescued from a well A two-year-old Chinese boy has been rescued from a 12-metre-deep dry well in southwest China. The toddler had accidentally fallen into the 30-centimetre-wide well in a village close to Mengzi City in China's Yunnan Province. Firefighters rushed to the scene to find him crying at the bottom of the concrete well, which contained no water. They pumped oxygen to the bottom of the well and looped a rope to hoist him up. After failing several times to pull him up, rescuers lowered down a smart phone to give the young boy instructions and assist in the rescue operation. The boy was lifted out of the well and rushed him to a nearby hospital.