MH-DEATH-MANHOLE

Two sanitation workers and the

contractor who had employed them died of suffocation in a

manhole at Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district, police said

Wednesday.

The incident took place at Kalundre village Wednesday

evening, a police official said.

The labourers were engaged in cleaning a sewage line

when they apparently suffered suffocation due to poisonous

gases inside a manhole, he said.

Two of the deceased were identified as Vikas Mhaskar,

the contractor, and Santosh Waghmare, a labourer. Identity of

the third person is yet to ascertained.

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