Toll Rises to 4 in Smelting Plant Tragedy After 3 Bodies Retrieved

Two workers were killed and six others were injured on Saturday after a part of an under-construction building collapsed in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh, police said.

- HT Correspondent

RAIPUR:

The incident occurred in Vishal Nagar area of Raipur where the multi-storey building is being constructed, Raipur additional superintendent of police Lakhan Patle told news agency PTI.

According to preliminary information, a slab was being laid on the eighth floor of the building around 3.30pm when the centering frame crashed and fell on the ground, he said.

"Eight workers, who were trapped under the debris of iron bars and construction material, were evacuated and admitted to different hospitals," he said. "Of them, two succumbed to injuries in the hospital."

Of the six injured, the condition of one is reportedly serious, Raipur superintendent of police Lal Umed Singh said.