KOLKATA: The bodies of two workers were recovered from a reservoir of an under construction building in Tollygunge area on Saturday morning. Police have identified the two victims as Shyam Halder (35) and Palan Haldar (36).
The incident happened before 10am as the foreman Swapan Roy who had visited the construction site at Russa Road South shortly after 10am had found the two missing. Police was informed around 11am. The cops said only a postmortem will ascertain whether the two died from drowning or gas poisoning. “At present, we know that one person had got inside the tank to clean it in the morning. When he didn’t respond, the second person went in. Their bodies began floating in the tank after sometime,” said an officer from Golf Green police station. The Disaster Management Group was called to remove the bodies to hospital.
