According to an NDTV story, poisonous gases caused five laborers to pass away in the Parbhani area of Maharashtra.
According to the report, the employees in the Parbhani area of the state perished after breathing in hazardous vapors while cleaning a septic tank.
According to the story, which quoted an official, one of the workers who was with them at the time was seriously injured and sent to a hospital in the area, which is some 500 kilometers from Mumbai.
According to the report, the event happened on Thursday night in the Bhaucha Tanda neighborhood, which is under the control of Sonpeth Police Station, he added.
Six laborers entered a farm’s sewage tank on Thursday afternoon, the official claims. They began to feel suffocated and ill while cleaning the tank, it stated.
Five of the employees were pronounced dead upon arrival at the neighboring hospital, it was said, adding that “all of them were rushed there.”
It said that an investigation was ongoing into an accidental death case that had been reported to the Sonpeth police station.
“In July 2022, the government informed the Lok Sabha that 188 people had died while undertaking hazardous cleaning of sewer and septic tanks since 2019,” it was said.
