Overview

• Police said the incident occurred Tuesday night at the Orange Hotel in Kattappana, where workers were cleaning a septic/waste tank.
• One worker entered a small manhole and became trapped, then two colleagues attempted a rescue and all three collapsed inside.
• Rescuers broke part of the tank to reach the men, who were pulled out and taken to a hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead.
• The deceased were identified as Jayaraman from Cumbum and Sundara Pandian and Michael from Gudalur, all in Tamil Nadu.
• A separate construction-site collapse in Chennai recently killed nine workers, with the Prime Minister’s Office announcing ex-gratia payments.