Two workers killed, five injured after church roof collapses in Tamil Nadu-A.P. border
A concrete roof slab collapsed at an under-construction church on the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border, resulting in two deaths and five injuries. Local police and fire departments conducted a rescue operation to recover workers trapped under the debris.
Why it matters
This incident highlights ongoing concerns regarding construction safety standards and the vulnerability of migrant labor in regional infrastructure projects.
Two construction workers were crushed to death, and five others were injured, one of them critically, when a newly-laid concrete roof slab of an under-construction church collapsed on the Tamil Nadu border in Vellore district, near Mandikrishnapuram Colony in Gudipala mandal, 24 km from here, on Thursday evening.
The police and Fire department teams from Chittoor and Gudipala rushed to the spot to assist the Tamil Nadu police in the rescue operation. The sudden structural collapse reportedly trapped around five to six construction workers under the heavy debris.
A group of about two dozen workers, mostly from Ranipet and Katpadi in Tamil Nadu, were reportedly engaged in the slab work. The support framework allegedly collapsed after the concrete casting was fully completed, burying the workers under the rubble.
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