Its owner, 48-year-old Toranai Chumeuang, called for help after finding that it had fallen into the one-metre-diameter, four-metre-deep abandoned well.
With the help of a crane loaned by the local city, a rescue worker was lowered into the well and finally succeeded – after nearly two hours – in tying a rope around the 150-kilo animal, whereupon the crane pulled it from the well. “It was quite difficult,” the rescuer explained, “because the well is narrow.”
Toranai said he had brought his herd to browse and tied the calf in a field fronting Wat Kao Wang Niang Buddhist temple, about 300 metres away from the well.
“But,” he explained, the calf got loose and strayed from the herd, then fell into the abandoned well, which was covered by local people with a piece of corrugated zinc roofing.”