Kolhapur: Four contract workers who choked to death after they entered the underground drainage pipe to clear the blockage in the city of Solapur on Thursday.
Contractual workers, who have not been identified until the time of the press, are working on the project to put new underground drainage pipes to connect with the old ones.
Solapur Municipal Corporation has done work to put new underground drainage pipes on the edges under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation Schemes and Urban Transformation (Amrut).
Vaishali Kabukar, Deputy City of Police Commissioner, said, “The incident occurred in a suburban colony along the Akkalkot-Solapur highway on Thursday night.” DCP said two workers had found a new sewer channel choking.
He said, “Both of them went down through the hole to check it out.
After a few minutes, two other workers came down Got by checking it.” “When four workers did not come out, two more workers entered the sewer to examine them.
The first four workers choked to death in the pipeline.
Some local residents helped in the rescue of two remaining workers, who underwent treatment in civil hospitals.
They are fine .
Identification of died workers is happening.
We have enrolled accidentally “Those who are responsible for the incident will be ordered,” Sankar said.
The Civic’s body has announced Ex-Gratia each RS10 Lakh until the next kin of a dead worker.