Patna: Overall three people died of weakness when releasing the wooden center in the septic tank in a newly built house in Chak Shahbaz Village in the Parsa area in the district suggestion on Wednesday.
Parsa Sho Jyoti Kashyap Police Station (DSP Probationer) said the deceased was identified as Dinesh Kumar Singh (19), Radheshyam Kumar (20) and Mumtaz Ali (39).
He said Dinesh and Radheshyam were daily wage construction workers and Mumtaz were the brothers of Raushan Ali, whose part of the house was being built.
He said the incident occurred around 12:30 a.m.
Dinesh and Radheshyam belonging to the nearest Marar Village.
“The police learned that Dinesh entered the septic tank to remove the wooden center.
The tank was almost 15 feet with as high as at least 5 feet of water in it,” he said.
Kashyap said Dinesh fainted and fell into the water.
“Radheshyam and Mumtaz hurried to save him.
They also died weakly because of poisonous gas in the tank.
The three of them died,” he said.
Sho said Brother Dinesh Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, told the police that his three were drowning in a canal near the house.
“However, it is not true.
The initial investigation shows them to die in the tank.
Things will be clear from the postmortem report,” he said.