Migrant worker killed as concrete slab collapses near Kaloor
The Hindu
The victim, along with two others, was cleaning a drain when the accident occured.
One migrant worker is suspected to have died while two others were rescued with injuries after a concrete slab collapsed atop them while they were cleaning up and increasing the depth of a drain at Shenoy Crossroad near Kaloor on Wednesday afternoon.
All the workers were reportedly from Andhra Pradesh and had been staying in the city for a while though their names were not yet known. It took the firefighters and police nearly two-and-a-half-hour to complete the rescue mission and recover the body of the victim.
All three workers were engaged in cleaning up the drain as part of Operation Breakthrough, a project aimed at reducing flooding in the city when the precariously positioned slab collapsed on them trapping them beneath around 12.40 p.m.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.