Trapped inside sewage tank, two municipal workers die in Odisha

Two municipal workers died while cleaning a sewage tank in Odisha on Thursday.

In a tragic accident, two municipal workers died of asphyxiation while another is in critical condition after being trapped inside a sewage tank at CDA Sector-10 in Cuttack on Thursday.The victims were identified as P Shankar and Bishnu Nayak. The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) workers were engaged in cleaning a sewage tank when the mishap took place at around 11:30am.When one of the workers fell into the 10-15 feet deep pit and got trapped, another worker came to his rescue. However, when both of them did not return till long, a third worker went down to find them and got trapped. A witness Manoranjan Bal said that finally the locals summoned the fire services to rescue them.