Three labourers died of asphyxiation at an illegal coal mine in Gujarat's Surendranagar district, police said on Sunday. A case has been registered against four persons for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and efforts are on to apprehend them, an official said.
The victims, Lakshman Dabhi (35), Khodabhai Makwana (32) and Viram Keraliya (35), were digging at a mine near Bhet village in Thangadh taluka of the district when they died of asphyxiation on Saturday, the official from Muli Muli police station said.
The trio did not have helmets, masks or other safety equipment when they were working for the accused, he said.
