A family had to be rescued after standing on a drain cover to take selfies and plunging into a 40ft deep well.<br /><br />Puji Sugiarto, 43, and his son, Al, aged five and daughter, Dee, aged seven, had been eating at a restaurant in Jakarta, Indonesia, when they posed outside on June 21.<br /><br />Reports said that the family climbed onto the well cover to take pictures but they did not know that it was only made of thin material.<br /><br />They then plunged into the abyss in the Matraman District, East Jakarta. Locals heard their cries for help and called the emergency services.<br /><br />Miraculously, the family were winched out almost unscathed after the pipes and the water at the bottom of the well cushioned their fall.<br /><br />Edi Purwono, a firefighter from East Jakarta, said: "They climbed into the well cover, then fell into the well that is 12 metres deep."<br /><br />The rescuers tied a rope to the victims' bodies and they were pulled out of the deep hole. The rescue operation lasted for an hour.<br /><br />The family was not hurt seriously but they were reportedly shocked.<br /><br />Fire chief Edi Purwono added: ''The father landed at the bottom first and his children landed next. They were lucky to survive such a big fall.''
