Sewer Deaths Expose National Crisis: Requiring National Action

Sewer Deaths Expose National Crisis: Requiring National Action

By Raju Kumar Despite strict laws banning manual scavenging, sanitation workers across India continue to lose their lives while cleaning sewers and septic tanks. The situation is particularly alarming in Madhya Pradesh, where 16 such deaths have been recorded between 2021 and 2024. According to the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), a national movement advocating for sanitation workers’ rights, these deaths are not isolated incidents but part of a …

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Mintrab) issued a statement on the incident at the Miraflores shopping center, zone 11 capital, where two workers died inside a septic well. The portfolio expressed its condolences to the families of Nick Anderson López Jiménez and Daniel Steven Miranda Toc, victims of the labor accident registered on March 31. Also read: Driver of delivery truck dies after armed attack in Coatepeque Mintrab detects fa…

3 workers die on government construction site in southeastern Turkey - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Three workers lost their lives in an accident on a government construction site in southeastern Urfa province on Friday, while a fourth worker was rescued, the TR724 news website reported. Four men working on a sewer construction project were trapped under tons of soil when a collapse occurred during excavation with a backhoe. Rescue teams were quickly dispatched to the scene, recovering the bodies of the three workers, while the fourth worker w…

Arequipa: Three workers crushed by a wall in the district of CharacatoArequipa: Municipal civil servant asks for intervention from the Public Prosecutor's Office in aggression against workers Workers is wounded after a dispute with members of the Civil Construction Union in Arequipa (PHOTOS AND VIDEO)The civil construction worker Jorge Luis Ramírez Fuño (24) died yesterday night in the Intensive Care Unit (UCI) of the Honorio Delgado Espinoza ho…

Two people have been reported to have died after an earthen pit collapsed. It has been reported that two people working in a mine in the Dambuluwana area of Elapatha have been buried to death after an earthen pit collapsed into a ditch in an old open pit mine. The two deceased are residents of the Ratnapura area. Police said they were aged 37 and 42 […] The post Two people have lost their lives after an earthen pit collapsed appeared first on IT…

The bodies of three workers who lost their lives under the sliding soil during the sewerage works in Ceylanpınar district of Şanlıurfa were buried.