Toddler who fell down 15m deep well is rescued after all-night operation

Rescue workers and soldiers carry the youngster from the dry well in the northern Thailand province of Tak (AP Photo/Chiravuth Rungjamratratsami)

An overnight rescue operation successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft on Tuesday — 18 hours after she fell into the hole at a cassava farm in northern Thailand.

Rescuers clapped and cheered as the toddler, the daughter of migrant workers from Myanmar, was pulled out of the 15-metre deep well shaft and placed on a stretcher and carried to a waiting ambulance.