Four people, including a rickshaw driver, are feared dead after they fell into a sewer on Tuesday evening in northwest Delhi's Sanjay Gandhi Transport (SGT) Nagar. Police said that the 38-year-old rickshaw driver had gone to rescue them but he also got trapped inside the sewer.
Bacchu Singh, Pintu and 55-year-old Suraj Kumar Sahni private contractors employees, had been conducting wiring work for telecom company MTNL. They had fallen and gotten trapped in the sewer at SGT Nagar's Main Bawana Road. The rickshaw driver, Satish, who had attempted to rescue the trapped men, had also fallen into the sewer.
According to a senior police official, information was received at Samaypur Badli police station on Tuesday at 6.34 PM regarding three workers falling into a sewer at SGT Nagar, Main Bawana Road. "Police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. The fire department officials and ambulance were also present. Enquiry revealed that one rickshaw driver was also in the sewer, who had gone to rescue those three workers," said the senior police official.
The fire department said that a call regarding men falling into a sewer line near Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar was received around 6:25 PM However, they were unable to rescue the men till the filing of this report.