Bhubaneswar, June 3 -- https://images.odishatv.in/uploadimage/library/16_9/16_9_0/recent_photo_1748932776.webp
Four people, including three sanitation workers and one local resident, lost their lives this morning after suffocating inside a newly constructed septic tank in Padalguda village under Nandahandi block of Nabarangpur district.
According to preliminary reports, a local resident had called sanitation workers to remove the centring slab of his newly built, approximately 10x10-foot septic tank. Two workers initially entered the tank but began suffocating almost immediately, possibly due to a lack of oxygen and the presence of hazardous gases trapped under the sealed slab.
A third worker entered the tank in a desperate attempt to re...