More than 80 hours of rescue efforts failed to reap results as the two-year-old boy, who was stuck in an abandoned borewell near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, died in the wee hours of Tuesday.

The body of the child was recovered in "dismembered" and in a "highly decomposed" state.

After the news of his death spread, condolences for the toddler started pouring in from all quarters. Hashtags like #SorrySujith, #RIPSujith and #SujithWilson started trending on Twitter with people expressing not only their grief but also apologizing on behalf of the 'system' for having failed to successfully save him.

Sujith Wilson had fallen into the disused farm borewell while playing near his house in Nadukattupatti on Friday evening, and various central and state agencies were called in to rescue him.