Thane: Three little sisters were killed when a truck container tilted and fell on them while dismantling coal in Bhiwandi Tehsil in the Thane Maharashtra district, police said on Wednesday.
The two-year-old sister escaped the accident in the village of Tembivili on Tuesday night in a brick kiln, where their parents were employed as workers, said a police station Bhiwandi Taluka.
Four people, including the owner of the brick kiln, was arrested in connection with the incident, police said.
A container truck dismantles coal on the brick kiln when the hydraulic system develops obstacles because the truck is tilted on the one hand and falls on the three sleeping sisters near the place, he said.
The girls who had died, between three and seven years, were the daughter of the Kiln brick worker pair, the official said.
The police registered the case below Section 304 A (causing death due to negligence) from the Indian criminal code against the people who were arrested, which were then produced before the local court that turned them on in police custody for two days.
The mother of four girls has allowed three brothers who died to sleep in huts on brick kiln and put toddlers in the stand made of clothes and hang them to trees on their hut side, said the villagers.
Since the two-year-old child is a bit far from the hut, he escaped not hurt, they said.
The police said the victims’ father had gone to answer natural calls at the time of the incident.
According to the victim’s father, the family – which consists of their partner and four of their daughters – have lived in a straw hut in the kiln brick itself.
His parents lived a little far away.
Those who were arrested include Gopinath Madvi, the owner of the brick kiln, Suresh Ramdas Patil, who had brought coal, and the Shaikh Toufik truck driver, the police said.