Indore, Madhya Pradesh: Five labourers were killed after the roof slab of an under-construction cottage at a resort collapsed in Choral village, Mhow tehsil, on Thursday night. The collapse occurred while the labourers were sleeping under the roof.
Visuals from the Incident Site
According to PTI reports, Indore (Rural) Superintendent of Police Hitika Wasal said that the police were notified about the incident around 6:30 a.m. on Friday. Emergency services rushed to the scene and carried out a rescue operation, which ended with the recovery of all five bodies. The bodies have been sent to the hospital for post-mortem.
Inspector Amit Kumar of Simrol Police Station said the accident was discovered when other labourers arrived at the site for work in the morning.