Three boys killed in Aurganabd Dist
Aurangabad
(Maharashtra),
Dec
26:
In
a
tragic
incident,
three
children
were
killed
in
their
sleep
after
they
got
buried
under
the
weight
of
cotton
bales
stored
in
the
room
on
the
night
of
December
25
at
village
Khullod
in
Sillod
tehsil
of
the
district,
about
60
km
from
here.
The boys, identified as Satish Bhorkade (13), Yogesh Bhagwat (15) and Walmik Landage (12), were asleep in a room belonging to one Dahikar family, where the stored cotton bales slipped and fell on them, police said today.
The Dahikar family had allowed the three to study in the room, which was also used as a store room by the family to stock the farm produce. As usual, the three reported to have gathered and after studying slept in that room.
The whole affair came to the light when one of the villagers incidentally visited the place at around 1100 hrs to ensure whether they were really studying. He did not get any reply when he knocked on the door repeatedly. The man then climbed onto the tin roof and peeped into the room to find the boys were crushed under the cotton bales.
He immediately raised an alarm and villagers rushed to the spot.
However, by the time people could reach there and remove the cotton bales, the students had already died of suffocation. The police have taken note of the incident, the sources added.
UNI