Sewage cleaning job claims another two lives in Mumbai

Two sanitation workers drowned in a sew chamber in suburban Goregaon, police said on Wednesday. Last month, five deaths of sanitation workers h been reported in city. latest trdy took place near Hub Mall in Goregaon (East) on Tuesday afteron, a police official said.

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deceased were identified as Arunkumar Patel (43) and Maj Goswami (41). official said that according to preliminary information, Goswami entered sew chamber to put some cleaning implements inside. When he did t return for twenty minutes, Patel followed him.

When both failed to return, ir colleague alerted police. Both were found to have drowned inside. Case of accidental death was registered at Vanrai police station in Goregaon and police were trying to find contractor who h hired m, official said. On December 23, three contract labourers died while cleaning septic tank of a residential building in suburban Govandi, while on December 16, two labourers died while cleaning a drain chamber in Kurla.

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