Two Workers Buried In Trench Under Ground In Horki

As a result, one man died.

On August 3, two men were buried under the ground in a trench in Mir Street in Horki. One of them died, the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed to tut.by.

The shift of soil occurred at around 3.45 p.m. during the laying of a sewage trench. A 60-year-old and a 42-year-old men were covered with soil up to the chest. Eyewitnesses tried to help them, but in vain.

The rescuers dragged them out of the backfilled trench and handed over to the ambulance doctors. The 60-year-old was not rescued - at 5.24 p.m. the doctors stated his death.

The circumstances of the incident are being established by the investigation.

As the readers told the reporters, the trench was laid on the territory of OJSC "Molochnye Gorki". The deceased was the plumber of the Horki Construction Mobile Mechanical Division, the rescued is the excavator of the same organization.