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While seven of them were trapped inside the mound, one Kiran Devi managed to free herself, police said. Kiran Devi then raised an alarm and villagers reached the spot, they said. A rescue operation pulled all the women out, who were then rushed to a government hospital. Three women were declared brought dead, three seriously injured women were referred to civil hospital, Gurugram and one worker is receiving treatment in Pataudi, police said. The deceased have been identified as Priyanka, Kola and Billo, they said. A senior officer said police will record the statement of Kiran Devi, who survived the mudslide. Deputy Commissioner of Police Nishant Kumar Yadav said an inquiry into the matter is underway. GURUGRAM: Three female labourers were killed while four others were critically injured after being trapped in a mudslide at the site where they were digging a pond in Pataudi area here on Tuesday, police said. According to police, the incident took place around 10.30 am when a mound of mud, around six feet high, fell on eight labourers digging a pond in Darapur village here. The digging activity was being carried out under the MGNREGA, the rural employment scheme.googletag.cmd.push(function() ); While seven of them were trapped inside the mound, one Kiran Devi managed to free herself, police said. Kiran Devi then raised an alarm and villagers reached the spot, they said. A rescue operation pulled all the women out, who were then rushed to a government hospital. Three women w...

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• • • • Eight women working at the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) project got trapped in a mudslide. Three women died in a tragic accident in Pataudi village, Gurugram, while four other women sustained injuries. On June 13, Tuesday, a five-foot-high mound of mud crashed on women while they were digging for a pond. According to the police, the injured women were rushed to the hospital and were set to be critically injured and admitted to the ICU ward. The officials also claimed that digging at the bottom caused the mudslide. The sub-divisional magistrate of Pataudi, Sandeep Aggarwal, said that as per the investigation, women started digging at the bottom, which destabilised the mound. However, the team is deployed to conduct further Officials on MGNREGA Accident In Gurugram The locals and rescue crew rescued the women. Assistant commissioner of police (Pataudi), Harinder Kumar, pointed out that one woman had a narrow escape and asked for help. In the Hindustan Times’s The three were declared dead when taken to a nearby hospital; the rest were referred to Gurugram’s Civil Hospital. According to officials, the work of digging a pond was going on at a government site, and for the last six months, only eight women were on the site. The deceased women are identified as Billo Delhi (45), Kola Devi (40), and Priyanka Singh (30), residents of Pataudi. The woman who escaped the accident is identified as Kiran Davi, who also lives in the same village...