Karnataka: Three Sanitation Workers Die of Asphyxiation While Cleaning Manhole
According to police, six people were brought from Kamala Nagar in Bengaluru by a contractor to clean the choked sewerage.
Sanitation workers in Chennai, a week before the national lockdown. Photo: By arrangement
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Bengaluru: Three sanitation workers died of asphyxiation while cleaning a manhole on Friday in the district headquarters town of Ramanagara, about 50 km from here.
“The three sanitation workers from Bengaluru had entered a manhole to clean it and died of asphyxiation. More details are awaited,” the Ramanagara superintendent of police S. Girish told
PTI.