In a horrific incident on Thursday morning (September 7), three workers lost their lives while two others sustained injuries when the scaffolding of an under-construction building gave way. The incident occurred as the laborers were working on the scaffolding of the construction site. Blocks of bricks and pieces of wood lay scattered on the road till afternoon after the accident.
According to the police, the labourers were carrying out their routine tasks on the sixth floor of the building when the wooden logs they were utilising for construction suddenly dislodged, causing them to plummet from the sixth floor to the ground below.
“Two of the laborers Santhu Badnayak (23) and Saniya Challan (19) died on the spot, while the third victim Soniya Badnayak (18) succumbed to injuries during treatment at a nearby hospital,” said D. Venkatesh, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Kukatpally Housing Board Colony (KPHB) Police Station. All the victims belong to Malkangiri district of Odisha state.
The persons who sustained injuries and are undergoing treatment have been identified as Balaram Badnayak (18) and Budha Badnayak (20), also belonging to the same district as the deceased.
The officer further revealed that the wooden logs may have become compromised due to the recent heavy rainfall in the region.
