Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Apr 7: A 40-year-old labourer died while another was injured after the wall of an under-construction bunker in village Nanga in Ramgarh Sector of Samba district along the International Border (IB) collapsed today.
The incident took place at Nanga village in Ramgarh sector, of Samba district today a police official said.
He said the labourers were building the underground bunker near the house of one Roop Lal, when one of the wall of the bunker collapsed suddenly, trapping them.
The labourers were rescued and shifted to a hospital where Raj Kumar (40), a local resident, was declared brought dead, the officials said, adding the body of the deceased was handed over to his family for last rites after completion of legal formalities. The police have also taken cognizance of the matter.
Work on hundreds of underground bunkers for the safety of border residents facing Pakistani shelling is going on along the IB and Line of Control in five districts of Samba, Kathua, Jammu, Poonch and Rajouri.
In December 2017, the Centre had sanctioned 14,460 bunkers at a cost of Rs 415.73 crore for the border residents in Jammu division. While 7,298 bunkers were sanctioned for the twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch along the LoC, 7,162 others were meant for the residents living along the IB in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts.
Earlier reports of substandard work on bunkers and seepage of water in them were also reported and people have raised a hue and cry against the same and expressed concern over the safety of bunkers to be constructed to protect them from heavy shelling across the border. With the collapse of the wall of another bunker today proving fatal for the labourers has substantiated the apprehensions of border residents and they have demanded a high level probe into the construction of these bunkers and material used for them.
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