patna:A painful accident occurred on Wednesday morning in Bihar’s capital Patna. When two workers descended to clean the drain of Patna municipal corporation died due to suffocation. The incident took place in the drain near the city’s income tax crossing.
This incident is at 9 in the morning, when 35-year-old Jitendra and 25-year-old Deepu got into the manhole to clean the municipal drain and after a few minutes became unconscious due to the effect of poisonous gas inside and both of them Succumbed. It is noteworthy that after the two workers entered the main hall, due to no voice or movement from inside, their colleagues feared that an incident had occurred, and those people in the funeral informed the police about the incident.
With great difficulty, both the bodies were pulled out of the drain
After some time the police officers and firefighters reached the spot and started the rescue operation. Hubman Pawan Kumar, who was posted in Bihar Police, first landed in the manhole, wearing a mask of oxygen, found that both the laborers had died. After a lot of trouble, Pawan Kumar pulled both the bodies out of the drain. During this, Pawan Kumar also became a victim of poisonous gas and became unconscious. He was immediately admitted to a nearby hospital and now he is undergoing treatment.
Police officials said that Patna, the municipal corporation has been campaigning to clean all the nallahs before the rains, under which the cleaning of the Nullah near the Income Tax Crossing was going on today. According to the police, two laborers were taken to the hospital immediately after being evacuated from the gutters. Where he was declared dead.
According to eyewitnesses, there was no security arrangement around during the incident. Because of which both workers were delayed in saving and they died.
