This is the moment an elephant was rescued - from a 20ft well. Touching footage shows the animal reaching up with its trunk to try and get to a JCB digger. The elephant had been travelling with a herd before it trapped itself down the make-shift well in the middle of a field. Hours later the animal was found desperately waving its trunk around in a bid for freedom. Villagers launched a six-hour rescue mission, using a JCB to dig the elephant out. Once rescued the elephant ran towards a nearby forest in the Ganjam district, east India and locals shouted loudly to frighten away the rest of the herd. The video was taken on February 1.