CHENNAI: A 50-year-old man, who was digging a trench for a drainage line at Otteri here, died after earth caved in and fell on him on Friday.
Police said Kuppusamy and his friend Murugesan had been digging a trench on the Bristley Road at Otteri. They were standing in the deep trench and working when the earth caved in burying them.
Passersby pulled Murugesan out of the trench.
However, they could not save the life of Kuppusamy as he was buried deep in the trench. He died of suffocation.
Murugesan was admitted to Stanley Government Hospital.