Three accidentally buried to death in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: When labourers were inside a deep pit at a construction site inside

Sirpur Paper Mill

in

Kagaznagar

suddenly a heap of mud cum stones from one side of the pit, fell on them and 3 labourers got buried to death on Saturday night.

Kagaznagar police said that 3 labours from Jharkhand-

Raghunath Ram

, 38, from Jharkhand,

C Bahniya

, 25, from

Jharkhand

and Ranjith, 30, died while four others M Rani Das, Santosh Ram, Parikhan Ram, Ram Praneeth,

Sanjay Ram

escaped with injuries and were shifted to a hospital in Mancherial.

At the time of mishap, there were 12 members at the construction site.

At around 11pm on Saturday when the mishap took place, other construction workers at the site informed the police, who reached the spot. Both police and others got into rescue operation. By the time police reached the spot, few persons were rescued by the workers from the heap of mud.

It took more than 3 hours to recover the dead bodies of the three persons, on whom large portion of mud fell.

Officials said that the company had given the construction task to a civil contractor and a case was registered under section 304 a (negligence causing death) of IPC.

The officials had to use earth movers while doing the rescue operation.

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