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India News | Four Labourers Killed After Falling off Under-construction Building in Gurugram

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India News | Four Labourers Killed After Falling off Under-construction Building in Gurugram
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Gurugram, Aug 2 (PTI) Four labourers died and another was critically injured when they fell off the 17th floor of an under-construction building here on Tuesday, police said.

The incident took place around 5.10 pm at the construction site of residential society Emaar Palm Heights at Sector 77, they said.

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The five labourers were fixing a tower crane on the 17th floor of the under-construction building and suddenly an iron angle of a shuttering broke down and all of them fell off, police said.

They were rushed to a hospital where four of them were declared brought dead, the police said, adding the critically-injured labourer is undergoing treatment at the facility.

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