Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (DC)

Puttur, Apr 24: Two labourers died in a landslip at an under-construction building site at Nellikatte here on Tuesday April 24.

Six labourers were trapped under the mud, out of whom four were rescued and two died. 

Padmanabha(35) from Jalligudde in Mangaluru and Shivu alias Shivanna(40) from Adavibavi village in Kushtagi taluk in Koppal are the deceased.

Mahantesh and Yashsvantha from Kushtagi in Koppal are ungoing treatment at nearby hospital.

Three of the labourers were rescued immediately, but one remained trapped under the pile of mud for over one-and-a-half hours and thus lost his life.

It is learnt that the labourer had come to Puttur from Adyar in Mangaluru the same morning to work at the under-construction site of Anita Oil Mill's new building.

It is learnt that unscientific work at the construction site and the movement of heavy vehicles in the area resulted in the mishap.

Pro-Hindu activists Arun Kumar Puthila and Muslim organization leaders joined the rescue operation.

MLA Shakuntala Shetty, tahshildar and other prominent local leaders too visited the spot.

On learning about the incident, the locals rushed to the spot and the cops had a tough time to disperse the crowd.