BHANDARA: Two workers were killed and one was injured after a slab collapsed in the Chikhla mines of state-owned Manganese Ore (India) Limited in Maharashtra's Bhandara district on Wednesday, an official said.
The incident occurred around 9 am during the first shift at a depth of 100 metres in the mines of the public sector undertaking, the Bhandara Disaster Management Office said in a release.
Three workers, all permanent employees, were buried under the debris and two of them died at the scene, the release said.
The third worker, Shankar Vishvakarma (56), was rushed to a hospital in Bhandara for treatment.
The bodies of the deceased workers, identified as Vijay Nandlal (50) and Arun Chormar (41), were sent to a hospital in Tumsar for post-mortem, the release said.
While Nandlal hailed from Kharpadia in Tirodi town of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra is the home state of the other two workers, it added.