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3 Sanitation Workers Die in Ghaziabad While Cleaning Sewage Plant

The three fell unconscious after inhaling poisonous gas inside the facility and died later.

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Three sanitation workers suffocated to death on Sunday, 8 July, inside a 40-feet deep main pumping station plant (MPS) they had climbed down into for cleaning in Ghaziabad, the police said.

Loni deputy superintendent of police Durgesh Kumar told PTI that the incident took place in the Dabur Talaab Colony of Loni where the MPS is located.

He said the three fell unconscious after inhaling poisonous gas inside the facility and died later.

The three fell unconscious after inhaling poisonous gas inside the facility and died later.
Three sanitation workers suffocated to death on Sunday, 8 July, inside a 40-feet deep main pumping station plant (MPS) they had climbed down into for cleaning.
(Photo: ANI)
The three fell unconscious after inhaling poisonous gas inside the facility and died later.
Police carry out investigations at the pumping station where three sanitation workers died while cleaning. 
(Photo: ANI)
The three deceased employees have been identified as Bulbul, Mahesh and Roshan (all in their late thirties) and their bodies have been sent for postmortem.

The deputy superintendent of police said the three bodies were recovered after a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team came to the spot.

The police said an FIR has been registered against the company for allegedly not providing proper apparatus for the sanitation workers.

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