By Zoya Saleem
May 27,2023
Seven people, including the owner of a stone quarry, were arrested in connection with the death of a 28-year-old laborer during a blast at the quarry late on Wednesday.
Accident or Murder?
According to the police, the event happened at a quarry near KB Hosahalli, off the Bengaluru-Chennai NH, while blasting work was being done. The blow caused a massive boulder to fly, pierce the glass of a truck parked nearby, and then fall on labor Somu Yadav and the driver, Gopi, who were inside.
The quarry owners were alerted by some of the workers, who then hurried the couple to MVJ Hospital in Hoskote.
Somu was brought in dead, according to doctors. Early on Thursday morning, Vemagal police reportedly discovered blood-stained mud, stones, and other items at the scene of an attempted evidence destruction.
Police made a case and detained seven persons, including Abdul Rahman, the owner of the quarry. According to authorities, the manager and a few other suspects are absent.
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Repeated Killings
A similar case was filed almost 2 years ago on february 23,at least six people were killed in what is thought to have been a gelatin explosion on a Tuesday morning at a quarry site in Chikkaballapur, close to Bengaluru. The Accident Site was visited by the Health Minister and the Minister in charge of the District. Just one month prior to this catastrophe, the Shivamogga area recorded a similar event in which six quarry workers perished in a quarry due to an unintentional explosion of a similar kind.
The continued killing of the workers in that quarry in these continuous years is still an enigma to local people living there.
