Koraput (Odisha), Sep 9 (PTI) Three persons died of suspected asphyxiation after entering a septic tank to clean it in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Wednesday, police said.
The incident took place in Tarpaguda in the Padmapur police station area, they said.
The deceased were identified as Harishchandra Bir (46), Prakash Lima (47) and Alok Karad (45), all locals, they said.
One of them entered the tank first, following which the other two went inside one after another. They subsequently became unconscious, apparently due to a lack of oxygen or toxic gases inside the tank, police said.
Fire services personnel later retrieved the bodies of the three victims from the tank, they said.
“The three prima facie appear to have died of asphyxiation after entering
the septic tank. The exact cause of death will be known after postmortem,” Padmapur police station inspector-in-charge BD Pradhan said. PTI COR AAM AAM SOM
