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An electrician died while four laborers were injured in an accident during the rapid rail construction project. The officials remained busy hiding the matter for several hours.
Accident on Rapid Project
– Photo: Amar Ujala
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An accident took place on Sunday in the yard of Larsen & Turbo Limited (L&T) company, which is working on the under construction project of Rapid Rail located in Shatabdi Nagar of Partapur police station area of Meerut. Electrician Subodh (35), resident of Samhota village in Rohtash district of Bihar, died after the gantry (heavy iron structure) fell. While four workers were injured. Who were admitted to the hospital. Company officials were busy hiding the accident for a long time.
L&T company is working on the project of Namo Bharat Train. For this the company has built its own yard in Shatabdinagar. At around 1 pm on Sunday afternoon, the workers were opening the machines in the yard. Apart from electrician Subodh, Suaib and Zubair residents of Saharanpur, Sunil resident of Bulandshahr and Monu resident of Ghaziabad were also engaged in the work. The gantry went out of control and overturned while being transported from one place to another.