Four persons, including two siblings, died due to suffocation while cleaning a trench in south Kashmir district of Anantnag, official sources said here on Tuesday.
They said four persons were cleaning a sewage trench at Luktipora in Bijbehara on Monday evening. “The persons, identified as Nazir Ahmad Dar, his brother Abdul Rashid Dar, Arshid Ahmad Wani and Sajad Ahmad Wani, were found unconscious in the trench,” they said.
They said the siblings and two other were immediately taken to a hospital, where they were declared brought dead. “After completing all the legal and medical formalities, the bodies of the deceased were handed over to their relatives for last rites,” they added.