India News | MP: Mud Quarry Caves In, 2 Dead, 1 Injured

Ujjain, Jun 2 (PTI) Two men were killed and one person was severely injured on Thursday when the mud quarry they were digging caved in at a village near Mahidpur area in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district, police said.

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People in the vicinity pulled the three men from the debris and rushed them to a hospital, where two were declared dead on arrival while the third was being treated at the district hospital, Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Akash Bhuria told PTI over phone.

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"The quarry was on government land and people used to extract mud to build houses and other civil works. A case has been registered and probe is underway," Bhuria said.

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