Palanpur: Four labourers died and two others got injured after a wall collapsed on them in Vohra-Wad locality in Dhanera town of Banaskantha district on Tuesday.
The victims were identified as Amrut Thakor of Samarvada village, Dava Majirana of Dhanera, Khema Thakor from Jadiyali village in Tharad taluka and Hansa Harijan of Yavarpura village. The two injured were rushed to a referral hospital in Dhanera.
The six labourers were engaged in reconstruction work at Yasin Usmanbhai’s building in the locality in Dhanera. When they were constructing a wall above the foundation, the adjacent wall collapsed on them suddenly, killing four of them on the spot.
Following a complaint lodged by Vaghaji Thakor, relative of Khema, police booked the building contractor Pravin Suthar and engineer Sanket Mehta for culpable homicide and negligence.
The workers were constructing wall above foundation when the adjacent wall collapsed