After extricating a decomposed body from the Adaimithippaankulam stone quarry on Monday night, personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Fire and Rescue Services located one more body under oversized boulders on Tuesday.
With this, the toll in the accident has risen to three. Two persons — earthmover operators Murugan, 40, of Vittilaapuram near Seythunganallur in Thoothukudi district, and J. Vijay, 27, of Naattaarkulam — were saved alive on Sunday morning. Though another earthmover operator S. Selvam, 25, of Idaiyankulam, was extricated alive from the mangled earthmover on Monday, he succumbed to injuries at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital within an hour.
