Rescuers in southern India worked for 15 hours on Friday (December 1) to free an elephant which fell into a deep well.

Footage showed a team in Muthappanpuzha in Kerala using a mechanical digger to open the side of the 36-foot-deep water source so that the adult male elephant could walk to safety unharmed.

Fifty-six people from various departments were involved in the operation.

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