Karkal: Tempo overturns at Maroor; 3 Construction workers die, several injured

Bellevision Media Network

Karkal, 18 Jul 2014: Three construction labourers died and 18 others injured when the tempo that was carrying them along with a towing concrete mixer overturned at Maroor, near Ajekar, here on Friday July 18 morning.
 
The identity of the deceased labourers is yet to be ascertained.
 
The injured has been identified as sixty-year-old Vijayakumar, fifty-year-old Mahantesh, forty-five-year-old Hanumanta, twenty-one-year-old Puttamma, twenty-nine-year-old Shobha, forty-five-year-old Gadiappa, seventeen-year-old Pakilesh, thirty-four-year-old Neelamma, Veeranna, fifty-five-year-old Ranganna Gowda, twenty-year-old Ramanna, eighteen-year-old Sharanabasappa, Ellamma and Mahadevi.   They have been rushed to state-run hospital here.

 

 

The tempo was overloaded with 21 labourers along with a towing concrete mixer taking them to a construction site by the contractor Nagappa who picked them form different points crammed the labourers to sit on the floor.  The uneven load and towing concrete mixer resulted in overturning the tempo.