Overview
- A huge boulder fell roughly 40 feet at a stone crusher in Madapattana, Bengaluru South Taluk on Thursday, burying workers who were carrying out early‑morning quarrying.
- Rescue teams and police cordoned the site, cleared debris, retrieved bodies and moved several injured daily‑wage labourers to a private hospital for treatment.
- Reports differ on the toll with some police statements confirming seven dead and other accounts fearing nine dead as officials work to identify victims and notify families.
- Police have opened a criminal probe to find the cause of the collapse and have taken the quarry owner into custody for questioning.
- Most victims were migrant labourers from Bihar and Assam who lived in makeshift camps near the crusher, a detail that highlights known safety risks in informal quarry work and could prompt tighter local oversight.