Vitla: Two workers enter 30-foot-deep well to place rings, die due to lack of oxygen
Vitla: Two manual workers, aged 40 years and 24 years, died of asphyxiation while working on placing the rings inside a 30-foot well sunk at Padibagilu of Kepu village on Tuesday.
The deceased workers were identified as Ibrahim, also known as Ibbu (40), a native of Kukkila currently residing at Parthippadi, and Ali (24) from Malar.
Ibrahim had been involved in the work of setting the rings of a well for the last 20 years. The two workers had planned that one of them would set the rings inside the well and also clean the well later, with work commencing on Tuesday.
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When the worker who descended into the well did not emerge after a considerable amount of time, the second worker became suspicious and entered the well to check on him. Unfortunately, both Ibrahim and Ali reportedly succumbed to asphyxiation on the spot, lacking oxygen at a depth of 30 feet.
The locals retrieved the bodies of the workers from the well and shifted them to the mortuary of the Vitla Community Hospital.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
