Delhi minister Rajendra Gautam today set up a vigilance committee to look into sewer deaths in the city. The duo had inhaled toxic gases while cleaning a sewer at a shopping mall. Yusuf (50) and his two sons -- Jahangir (24)and Izaz (22) -- collapsed while cleaning the sewer, police said. One of the firemen, Mahipal, who had entered the sewer, also inhaled the toxic fumes and collapsed, they said. Last week, three men who were manually cleaning a sewer line at Lajpat Nagar had died after inhaling noxious fumes.

Source: dna August 12, 2017 19:18 UTC