3 Killed During Pipeline Installation Work in Odisha

2 got injured in the incident?

On Thursday, three laborers were killed and two others injured as a mound of soil collapsed on them when they were engaged in pipeline installation work in Odisha's Jajpur district, police said.

On Wednesday night, the incident happened in Rahasa village of Kapila panchayat under the jurisdiction of the Binjharpur police station of the district.

While two of the deceased were identified as Akhtar Ansari and Firoz Ansari, the identity of another person is yet to be ascertained, a police officer said.

The victims and the injured were contractual laborers from Bihar and Tamil Nadu.

They were working for a private company, he said.

A portion of the soil the workers had dug up for the installation of the pipeline fell on them and five workers got buried.

They were rescued and sent to a hospital where three of them died, the police officer said.

A case was registered in connection with the incident. 

An investigation into this case is going on, he further added.