One killed in tunnel collapse
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 01 2012:
A labourer of the Northern Frontier Railway engaged in tunnel drilling work for the Jiri-Tupul railway line has been killed when the tunnel under which they were working collapsed.
A police source informed that tunnel number 12 which was being drilled at Khongsang under Nungba police station in Tamenglong district collapsed at about 6.30 am yesterday.
The falling mass of earth buried and killed one labourer and the victim has been identified as one Abhishek Ranjan Jha (19) s/o Ratneshwar Jha of Belasadi village, Madhiyapura district, Bihar.
The corpse of the deceased has been handed over to the authority of NF Railway after post mortem at RIMS today.