1dead, 2 hurt as mall scaffolding gives way

LUDHIANA: One labourer died and two others were critically injured when they fell from the sixth floor of an under construction mall near Fountain Chowk while working on a scaffolding on Sunday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Kundan Kumar, 24, while Shiv Kumar and Sudhir Kumar were seriously injured. The other labourers at the construction site said the victims hail from Bihar and the mishap happened at around 1pm.
Around 31 labourers were removing the lenter scaffolding on the sixth floor when it suddenly fell on them and forced the platform the victims were standing upon to crumble and give up. The eyewitnesses said while two labourers fell from sixth floor to a reservoir filled with water on ground floor, Kundan got stuck in the safety net suspended above the ground. The labourers on the site took him to Dayanand Medical College and
Hospital but he was declared brought dead by doctors.
Police officers and fire tenders reached the spot when informed and fireman rescued the two labourers who fell in the deep water reservoir.