Labourer killed, another critical after concrete slab collapses on them in Bijbehara
Umaisar Gull Ganie
Bijbehara, Mar 03 : In a tragic incident, a labourer was killed while another one was critically injured after a concrete slab of a house collapsed on them in Sambad Nowshera village of Bijbehara in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday afternoon.
An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the duo came under the concrete slab after it collapsed at around 03:00 pm today.
He said that one house owner namely Mohammad Aslam Bajad son of Mukhan Bajad, a resident of Sambad Nowshera was opening the shuttering of his newly constructed house.
“After opening the shuttering, the slab of the house suddenly collapsed on two labourers,” he said
The official said the the duo was rushed to a nearby hospital, where one of them was declared brought dead and other one is being treated at district hospital Anantnag.
He identified the deceased as Junaid Mandad son of Ghulam Hassan from Sambad Nowshara and injured as Shabir Ahmad Nengroo son of Ghulam Mohammad of Nowshera Khiram—(KNO)
