Kolkata, Sept. 12 -- At least three people were killed in an accident in a stone quarry in West Bengal's Birbhum district today, police said.
Eyewitnesses, however, put the death toll at five with another person sustaining a critical injury.
The mishap happened in the stone quarry at Bahadurpur in Nalhati between 2 to 2-30 pm.
It was not immediately known how the mishap happened in the quarry, which witnessed several blasts for splitting blocks, sources added.
They said around 12 labourers were on the site when the incident took place. Seven of them escaped miraculously.
A search operation was on to locate any survivors underneath the debris.
Eyewitnesses said five bodies were brought in the Rampurhat hospital with split limbs. Anothe...