Retaining wall collapses, two buried alive

Two construction workers died when a retaining wall beside a construction site at Monkey Stand in the City collapsed in the wee hours of Wednesday. The victims have been identified as Sharief and Ashraf, hailing from West Bengal.

In fact, the death news came to light only in the morning though the incident had taken place at around 1.30 am. Fire brigade and police had arrived in the site as soon as they were informed, but returned when the security personnel in the site told them that nobody were there beside the wall.

“However, the collapsed bricks were removed from the drainage beside the construction site in the morning as the water flow had been blocked. And everybody was shocked to see two dead bodies below the remains,” Corporator of Mangaladevi ward Premanand Shetty told Deccan Herald.Storm water had entered some houses around the construction site because of the flood and it was inevitable to clear the drainage, said one of the neighbours. The construction site belongs to one Suresh Shetty. Pandeshwar police have registered a case.