2 labourers die of suffocation

Rajkot | Thursday | 15th March, 2018

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Rajkot: Two labourers were asphyxiated to death due to gas leakage in Alang ship-breaking yard in Bhavnagar district on Wednesday morning.Police identified the deceased as Balram Dhulia (40) and Ramnayan Rajbhar (42), natives of Madhya Pradesh.“The incident occurred at plot number 32 where the duo had gone into an empty tank of the ship that was anchored for breaking,” a fire brigade official said.Fire brigade officials took the duo’s bodies out and took them to Talaja Civil Hospital, where they were declared brought dead..