Erode: Three farmers died and three others suffered sustainable injuries when some of a old building collapsed in Andhiyur in the district scrape Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Monday.
The deceased has been identified as M Madevan, 55 and T Chinnapadai, 35.
Injuries have been identified as K Rajesh, 30, S Sivamooorthi, 45 and K Mahendran, 18.
Everyone comes from the Burgor Village.
They came to Andhiyur on Sunday night to sell vegetables and fruits on the market there.
They slept on the front of the electric store, owned by R Rajasekar from Andhiyur.
Around 1:30 a.m., the front of the store collapsed, and all six men were stuck under the rubble.
Siddhan, Madevan and Chinnangkayan died in place.
Andhiyur police saved others and sent them to a government hospital.
The body is sent for postmortem.
The police registered a case.
3 farmers die as part of the building collapsed
