A 40-year-old sanitation worker died while three others were admitted to a hospital in critical state after they entered a government hospital sewer for cleaning on Sunday. Since July, 10 sanitation workers have died in the national capital. All four were taken to the hospital where Rishi Pal was declared brought dead. On July 15, four men died in south Delhi's Ghitorni area when five of them got into a private septic tank for cleaning but were suffocated to death. In a similar incident on August 12, toxic sewer gases killed two brothers cleaning a sewage tank without safety gear at a mall in east Delhi.

Source: dna August 21, 2017 01:30 UTC