A 24-year-old labourer was killed in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district when a dumper dumped soil over him while he was sleeping.
According to police, Jairam, who worked at the Pench dam project site, was killed early Thursday when the soil which was emptied over him was levelled by a roller.
"The labourer was killed due to soil being dumped over him," Chhindwara district police superintendent G. K. Pathak told IANS on Friday.
More details were to be disclosed after the autopsy.
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