TIRUPATI: Two workers from Jharkhand working inside a tunnel reportedly died in a mishap at the Greenko's renewable energy project site at Nandyal district of Andhra Pradesh on Friday.
Angry co-workers went on a rampage and damaged several vehicles belonging to the Greenko group at the project site.
Co-workers alleged that inclement weather led to the mishap which claimed two precious lives.
According to Nandyal SP K Raghuveer Reddy, a group of seven workers entered a tunnel at the Greenko project site near Pinnapuram village in Pangam mandal at around 9 am on Friday. Due to inclement weather, mud blocks crashed on two workers, leaving them dead on the spot.
The deceased were identified as Sonu Kumar (20) and Munnar Singh Bhokta (35), both residents of Chatra district in Jharkhand.
Police registered a case under section 174 of the IPC and are further investigating. The bodies of the deceased were shifted for postmortem.
Even as the district administration has ordered an enquiry into the incident, CPI's Nandyal district secretary Ranga Naidu who visited the accident site, alleged that the Greenko management forced the labourers to work on-site despite inclement weather during the last one week.
"The project management took least precautions to prevent such accidents in the first place. The bereaved families have lost their bread winners and we demand the state government to order an enquiry, initiate appropriate action on the Greenko management on grounds of negligence and handover a compensation of Rs.1 crore to each of the victim's families", Ranga Naidu demanded.
