The Hindu, April 10, 2007
Bhawanipatna, April 9 (PTI): Four labourers were killed and two others seriously injured when a mound of earth caved in at a hillock about six km from here today, the police said.
The six persons, five of them teenaged boys, were excavating soil for road construction when the mishap occurred.
As soon as the incident occurred, police and fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and pulled out the six persons buried underneath. While four of them had died by then, two others were in serious condition.
The injured were immediately rushed to the district headquarter hospital here for treatment.
Those killed in the mishap have been identified as Budu Goud (55), Ramesh Nayak (17), Bhola Rout (17) and Hari Bag (19).
Lucky Bag and Parsu Gahir, both 18, were the two injured boys.
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