20/11/2017
PUNE: Eight
labourers were killed after the cables of an elevator snapped when they were
coming out of an underground tunnel, police said.
The underground tunnel, which police said is more than 100
feet beneath the surface, is being constructed near Akole village as part of
the Nira-Bhima river-linking project on the outskirts of Indapur town, 120 km
from here.
Around 6.30 pm, eight labourers were coming out of the tunnel
in a lift when its cables snapped mid-way. All of them were killed in the
incident, said sub-inspector B N Pawar of the Bhigwan police station. He
said most of those killed were from outside Maharashtra, but they are yet to be
identified. A police team was at the spot to ascertain their identity.
The river-linking project, launched under the Krishna Bhima
Stabilisation scheme, involves the construction of 24.8 km-long Nira-Bhima Link
5 tunnel. The project, which began in 2012, is designed to take water from
water-rich rivers to scarcity-hit areas.
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