2 workers die from toxic gas inhalation

Two construction workers died due to inhalation of toxic gas while working in a septic tank at Radha Ballabh in Rangpur city yesterday.

Gourango, 30, of Panapukur village in Gangachara upazila, and Hasan Ali, 28, of Damodarpur Boro Maidan area in the city, fell sick after they entered a septic tank at the house of Golam Ahmed Mukit around 11:00am, said ABM Jahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station.

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Later, locals rescued them and took them to Rangpur Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead, the OC added.