Highlights
- The incident was reported in the early hours of Friday from Wagholi area
- The police were informed about the incident at nearly 7 am on Friday
- They took out two bodies from inside the septic tank
Pune: Two labourers died while cleaning a septic tank in Maharashtra's Pune. The incident was reported in the early hours of Friday from the Wagholi area of the city.
According to the details, the workers died of suspected asphyxiation while working in a drainage chamber-cum-septic tank.
Police said they got trapped inside the tank.
"The victims were working in an 18-feet deep drainage-cum-septic tank. It seems that they were suffocated and got stuck inside. We were informed about it around 7 am and after reaching the spot, we took the bodies of two workers out," an official from the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority's fire brigade department said.
As per the information given by the residents, there is the possibility that one more worker is stuck inside, he said.
"People here are saying that there were a total of three workers. We also saw three pairs of footwear outside the tank, so a search is on for the third worker," the official said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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