SONBHADRA: The death toll in the stone
quarry accident in the Billi Markundi
mining area here has risen to 5, police said on Sunday. Bodies of three trapped labourers were retrieved at around 4am on Sunday.
The deceased have been identified as Gulab (26),
Ram Prahlad (25) and Shivcharan (35), superintendent of police
Ashish Srivastava said on Sunday. Bodies of two labourers were on Saturday pulled out from the debris of a boulder that came down in the stone quarry here.
Police said a case has been registered against the mining strip owner (pattaa dhaarak) Suresh Keshri, unknown mining officers and others under the IPC.