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Mumbai: 3 labourers killed, 2 hurt as bakery's chimney collapses
Three labourers killed, two injured after the chimney of Aqsa bakery in Mumbai's Jogeshwari fell late last night.
Mumbai: Three labourers were killed and two others injured when the chimney of a bakery collapsed here, a senior police official said today.
The labourers were having dinner inside the bakery, a single-storey structure on SV Road in suburban Jogeshwari, when its chimney caved in at around 10.30 pm yesterday, the official said.
The workers got trapped under the debris, he said.
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Later, the police rushed to the spot, extricated the five labourers from the debris and rushed them to hospital where three of them were declared dead upon arrival, he said.
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The deceased have been identified as Jeetendra Harichand (26), Kishmat Ali (24) and Teeji Bhargav (22), senior inspector at Oshiwara police station, Subhash Khanvilkar said.
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The other two labourers were undergoing treatment, police said.
"We are taking the opinion of experts whether the mishap took place due to a natural calamity (rain) or negligence on part of the owner, based on which we will take further action," Khanvilkar said. (PTI)