MH-DEATH-MANHOLE
- Country:
- India
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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