Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 4: Two persons died due to inhaling of poisonous gas while cleaning a well in Magam area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Six rescuers have also been hospitalized.
Police said two persons had gone inside the well at Badran, Magam to clean it. However, they fell unconscious and soon three more persons jumped into the well to rescue them. They too fell unconscious and did not come out.
Three more persons later jumped to rescue them but they too failed to come out of the well trapping 8 people.
Hundreds of villagers reached to the spot as the news spread. A police team also reached the spot and later evacuated all the eight persons from the well.
Two persons Nisar Ahmad Lone, son of Abdul Rashid and Haneef Ahmad Lone, son of Abdul Hamid who initially went inside the well were declared brought dead by the doctors at the hospital and the other six persons were shifted to a nearby Sub-District hospital Magam in an unconscious state.
They have been identified as Bilal Ahmad Lone son of Ghulam Mohammad, Riyaz Ahmad Lone, son of Sonaullah, Mehrajud-Din, son of Mohammad Afzal. Three others have been identified as Abdul Majeed Lone, son of Abdul Rehman, Ishfaq Ahmad Rather son of Abdul Aziz and Abdul Majeed Waza, son of Ahmadullah and were shifted to SKIMS hospital Soura in Srinagar for specialized treatment.
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