MANGALDAI, Nov 12 - In a tragic incident, two workers breathed their last inside a new septic tank at Kharupetia town of Darrang district. According to Ganesh Ghosh, a Ward Commissioner of Kharupetia Municipal Board, Saha Alam, a mason by profession along with his fellow worker Safikul Islam entered into the under- construction septic tank in the residential campus of one Manik Saha of Tilapatti , ward no-4 of the town. However, after some time, when the owner Saha called them, he failed to find any response. Suspecting some danger, Saha also entered into tank only to find both the workers in an unconscious state. He raised a hue and cry hearing which, the local people gathered and first helped him get out of the tank . Later, Kharupetia police with the help of members of the local fire and emergency service rescued both the workers in a critical condition and rushed them to the Kharupetia Primary Health Centre and then to the Mangaldai Civil Hospital where they were declared dead. The reason of their deaths will be ascertained only after the post mortem report comes, but doctors suspect it to be a case of heart failure due to acute shortage in supply of oxygen.
