Three sanitation staff died after inhaling toxic gases, while cleaning a sewer line with none security gear, in Bharuch district of Gujarat.
This is the second such incident the place staff have died of asphyxiation in drainage, in two weeks.
Earlier, two individuals had died in Rajkot equally.
Two extra staff have been hospitalised after they breathed in poisonous gases, in an try to drag their colleagues out from the sewer at Dahej village in the district, stated R.B. Vasava, social welfare officer.
After the incident, police lodged a case towards the contractor who had engaged the labourers to clear the drainage line with out offering security gears.
Recently, the State authorities knowledgeable the Legislative Assembly that 11 sanitation staff died of asphyxiation while cleaning sewers in completely different components of the State, in the final two years.
Accordingly, seven individuals died between January 2021 and January 2022; 4 misplaced their lives between January 2022 and January 2023, Gujarat Social and Justice and Empowerment Minister Bhanuben Babariya stated in the State Assembly.
