Five Die of Asphyxiation Inside Well in Chhattisgarh

Raipur: Five persons died of asphyxiation after inhaling toxic gas inside a well in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district on Friday.

The accident occurred in Kikirda village under the Birra police station area.

The deceased have been identified as Ramchandra Jaiswal, Ramesh Patel, Rajendra Patel, Jitendra Patel and Tikeshwar Chandra, Inspector General of Police (Bilaspur Range) Sanjeev Shukla said.

As per preliminary information, a person named Ramchandra Jaiswal entered the unused well to take out a piece of wood that had fallen into it. When he fainted, his family member shouted for help and three others from the neighbouring Patel family entered the well to rescue Jaiswal.

When all four did not come out, another man entered it and he also became unconscious inside.

Then the locals called up the police. A team of Chhattisgarh State Disaster Response Forces (SDRF) took out the bodies from the well.