Uttar Pradesh: One killed in Sonbhadra stone quarry collapse

Rescue operation underway at the collapse site. PIC/PTI

The body of a labourer was recovered from the rubble on Sunday morning from a stone quarry that collapsed here, while several others remain trapped, a senior police official said.

Minister and local MLA Sanjeev Kumar Gond, who visited the spot in the Billi Markundi mining area after the collapse on Saturday evening, said "around a dozen labourers" might be trapped under the debris.

Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Varanasi Zone, Piyush Mordia, on Sunday said efforts to remove the debris from the quarry has been going on since last night. Police identified the deceased as Raju Singh, 30, from Panari village in the same district.

Sonbhadra SP Abhishek Verma said, around 4.30 pm on Saturday, the Obra police station received information that some workers were buried under rocks and debris after a portion of a stone quarry collapsed.

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