Maharashtra: Bodies of 3 workers trapped under soil during well construction recovered, search for 4th continues

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The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Friday recovered the bodies of three out of four workers trapped under a mass of soil and concrete that caved in during the construction of a well in Indapur tehsil of Pune district on August 1, a police official said.

The bodies were retrieved from the well this afternoon and the search for the fourth victim is on, he said.

The NDRF's operation to rescue the four trapped workers began in the morning for the fourth day.

"Three bodies were recovered from the well by the NDRF personnel and the search for the fourth one is on," assistant inspector Dilip Pawar of Bhigwan police station said.

The incident occurred at Mhasobachi Wadi village in Indapur tehsil on Tuesday evening.

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The well is 100 feet deep with a diameter of 120 feet, officials said, adding that the site was earlier used for quarrying.

During the construction of the well, the inner concrete wall sank, and those working at the edge of the concrete wall fell down and got trapped under the debris, they said.

Meanwhile, three persons were injured after some portion of a wall of a vacant four-storey building in south Mumbai collapsed on Friday morning, officials said.

As per the alert received from the traffic control, a part of a wall of the empty Mehkar House building on Shamaldas Junction in Marine Lines caved in at around 8.30 am, they said.

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"A scaffolding was erected to carry out repairs in the building, but it fell down along with a canopy. Three persons, including a 20-year-old man, suffered injuries in the mishap and they were sent to nearby G T Hospital for treatment," an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

Further details about the incident are awaited, he said. (With inputs from PTI)