3 workers from West Bengal killed at construction site in Nilgiris district
Coonoor (Tamil Nadu) (PTI): Three migrant workers engaged in construction work were killed here on Saturday after mounds of sand and portions of a retaining wall fell on them, officials said.
When workers were engaged in digging the ground for construction purposes in a residential premises, all of a sudden heaps of sand rushed down on them and portions of a retaining wall collapsed and fell on them, trapping the workers.
Other workers on the site and local people alerted the police, fire and rescue services personnel and they brought out the three workers from the sand heaps and they were rushed to a government hospital here.
However, hospital authorities declared them brought dead.
The deceased were young men aged between 22 and 36 and they were identified as Abdul Rahman, Naseer and Usman.
The residential premises where the construction work is going on fall under the Jegathala Town Panchayat limits in the Nilgiris district.
A probe was launched following registration of a case, police said.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
