Two labourers killed in separate accidents in Jammu
Jammu, Aug 25: Two labourers were killed in separate accidents in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, with one crushed to death after a concrete bridge pier collapsed in Samba district and another dying after falling from a bridge under construction in Jammu, officials said.
A pier of a bridge under construction collapsed at Jakh Morh in the Vijaypur area of Samba around 10.10 am when workers were engaged in laying the structure, crushing 25-year-old labourer from Bihar, Gotam Sahu, to death, they said.
Another labourer sustained head injuries in the accident and was evacuated to a hospital, the officials said.
Police have taken cognisance of the incident and initiated proceedings to ascertain the circumstances that led to the collapse.
In a separate incident in Jammu, labourer Budhi Singh (45), a resident of Ramban, was critically injured after falling from a height at the Tawi bridge in the Sidhra area this afternoon.
Singh was rushed to Government Medical College (GMC) hospital, where he was declared brought dead, the officials said. (PTI)
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