Odisha: Four labourers killed in separate cave-in accidents
While three labourers were killed at a construction site, the fourth died after being buried under a pile of stones at a quarry in Jajpur
Four labourers were killed in two separate incidents after soil at a construction site and stones at a quarry caved-in in Jajpur district of Odisha.
In Rahansa village of Jajpur’s Binjharpur district, three labourers from Tamil Nadu and Bihar were killed after a heap of soil caved in on them while they were laying pipelines for a construction company on late on Wednesday.
The labourers were rescued by locals and rushed to Binjharpur community health centre. Later, they were shifted to the district hospital in Jajpur where they were declared dead.
In a separate incident in Dankari stone quarry of Dharmashala block in the same district, a labourer was buried under a pile of stones while quarrying work was underway on Wednesday night.
A contractor from Andhra Pradesh was undertaking stone quarrying with the help of excavators when the mishap happened. Two more labourers are feared trapped under the stones.
