UP: Three more bodies pulled out, toll in Sonbhadra quarry accident climbs to 5

SONBHADRA

: The death toll in the stone

quarry

accident in the Billi Markundi

mining

area here has risen to 5, police said on Sunday. Bodies of three trapped labourers were retrieved at around 4am on Sunday.

The deceased have been identified as Gulab (26),

Ram Prahlad

(25) and Shivcharan (35), superintendent of police

Ashish Srivastava

said on Sunday. Bodies of two labourers were on Saturday pulled out from the debris of a boulder that came down in the stone quarry here.

Police said a case has been registered against the mining strip owner (pattaa dhaarak) Suresh Keshri, unknown mining officers and others under the IPC.