A man, who was mining sand on government lands and selling it to people, got trapped under sand when he was quarrying on Wednesday.
Police said N. Rettaimuthu (45) of JJ Nagar near Thalamuthu Nagar, who used to lift sand from government poramboke lands in a bullock cart and sell it to his customers, was quarrying sand from a pit near Tsunami Colony on Wednesday. As the ground suddenly caved in, he got trapped under a huge heap of sand and died on the spot.
Thalamuthu Nagar police have registered a case.