Migrant worker killed as concrete slab collapses near Kaloor

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.