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madurai4 hours ago
A heart-wrenching incident came to light in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai city on Friday. Here, a cleaning worker was first buried in a pit during cleaning, after that his fellow workers tried to rescue him in a panic. Because of this his head has been severed from the trunk.
In fact, Satish alias Veeran of Erode district was accidentally buried under debris during cleaning of an 11 feet deep pit at Vilangudi at around 3 pm yesterday. After this fellow employees started digging with JCB instead of calling firefighters or rescue team to save him. He died in this accident.
CM gave 10 lakh help to the family
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has announced Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the victim. At the same time, the police have arrested site engineer Sikander, site supervisor Balu and JCB operator Suresh. A case of death due to negligence has been registered against all of them.
The pit was less than 2 feet wide
The rescue team immediately reached the spot as soon as the news of the accident was received and the body was pulled out through ropes at around 5.30 pm. Officials said that the pit was less than 2 feet wide and only one person could enter it at a time.
Regarding this accident, a corporation official said that usually for the safety of the workers, they are lowered into the pit with the help of rope. At present, the body of the laborer has been sent to the government hospital for postmortem.