Hyderabad, Mar 5 (PTI) Two workers died and three others were injured after a scaffolding collapsed during construction work at a building in Tolichowki area here on Thursday, police said.
The incident happened at around 3.30 pm when the workers were constructing a parapet wall on the sixth floor of the building when the wooden plank collapsed and they accidentally fell down.
“The scaffolding collapsed and the workers fell down. Two of them died on the spot and three others were injured,” a senior police official told PTI.
The three injured were shifted to a hospital and the condition of one among them is serious, said another police official at Tolichowki Police Station.
Telangana Labour Minister G Vivek Venkatswamy sought a report on the incident, including the health condition of the injured workers.
In a post on ‘X’, he said he directed labour department officials to take steps for to provide treatment to the injured in coordination with other government departments. PTI VVK SJR VVK KH
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