TWO SANITATION WORKERS, COP DIE OF ASPHYXIATION

FEROZEPUR: Two sanitation workers and a policeman, who went inside a manhole to rescue them, died of asphyxiation while cleaning sewage on the premises of police lines here, a police official said. One more sanitation worker was critically injured. The incident occurred on Sunday when two workers, Ravi Kumar and Krishan Kumar, fell unconscious. Balvir, went inside the manhole to save them but could not come out. When constable Lachhman noticed that the three had failed to come out, he also jumped inside to rescue them but lost his life, the official said. mother claimed that a man, known to them, had taken the child away from her by force when she was ending to goats in the fields, Kumar said. “We have launched a hunt to nab the accused, who is on the run. We will try and solve the case as early as possible,” the officer said.