BHOPAL: Three people lost their lives and eight were critically injured when a 70-foot-high 400KV electricity transmission tower collapsed in Sidhi district of MP on Thursday afternoon. All victims are from West Bengal. According to police, old transmission towers were being replaced and the contract was given to a firm in Bengal.
The tower that collapsed was being put up in Aamdad village of Rampur Naikin panchayat, 600km from Bhopal. Around 12.30pm, the tower suddenly crashed to the ground.
Other workers and locals rushed to extricate the victims from the twisted jumble of metal. Police took all the victims to hospital. While two of them died on the way to Sanjay Gandhi Medical College in Rewa, 50km from the accident site, a third was declared dead on arrival.
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