Five people, including three labourers and two security guards of a private agency, died due to suffocation at Adani Wilmar Soya plant on Thursday afternoon. Police have registered a case and started investigation.
The deceased have been identified are Yuvraj Singh Chandravat, Rahul Singh, Deepak Yadav, Rajendra Singh and Ravi. As per primary information, two workers of the company entered in a tank of the factory to clean it and started feeling suffocation. When they called for help other workers rushed to the spot and they also became unconscious.
SP Neemuch Rudolf Alvares said that five people drowned while cleaning the waste tank of the plant. "We are lodging a case and a forensic team has been called. We are investigating the matter from all angles," he said
Neemuch City police station in-charge Shiv Pal Singh Yadav said, "As per the primary information two labourers were cleaning a tank and became unconscious.To save them, three others also entered into the tank and died. We are investigating the case."
local BJP MlA Dileep Singh Parihar, while expressing grief over the incident, said that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been informed of the incident and he has assured that a thorough probe would be carried out, while all possible help would be provided to the family members of the deceased. Compensation would also be provided to the families of the victims, he added.