Five construction workers were crushed to death when the compound wall of a private college in Coimbatore collapsed on Tuesday.
The police said a portion of the compound wall of Sri Krishna Arts and Science College at Sugunapuram on Coimbatore – Palakkad Road collapsed on top of the victims when they were working on erecting a new wall beside it. The deceased were identified as Kolli Jeganathan, 53, Nakkela Satyam, 48, and Rapaka Kannayya, 49, of Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh, and Bish Ghosh, 24, and Barun Ghosh, 28, of West Bengal.
While Kolli Jeganathan, Nakkela Satyam, Rapaka Kannayya and Bish Ghosh died on the spot, Barun Ghosh, who had sustained injuries, was rushed to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, where he died without responding to treatment.
