Earlier this month, seven people including four sanitation workers died of suffocation while cleaning a hotel’s septic tank in Fartikui village of Gujarat’s Vadodara.
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Four municipal corporation sweepers, three of them part-time workers, died of asphyxia at a public division disposal plant’s septic tank near Meat Market in Haryana’s Rohtak on Wednesday.
The deceased have been identified as permanent employee Anil Saini, 39, of Kaithal and part-time workers Sanjay Kumar, 26, of Uttar Pradesh, Dharmender, 35, and Ranjit Dhanak, 28, of Rohtak.
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Earlier this month, seven people including four sanitation workers died of suffocation while cleaning a hotel’s septic tank in Fartikui village of Gujarat’s Vadodara.
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Earlier, National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) Chairman Manhar Valjibhai Zala had said that as many as 801 sanitation workers have died while cleaning sewers in the country since 1993.
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