Tragic Collapse Claims Lives of Two Railway Engineers in Kota
Rescue crews used LNT and JCB machines, but doctors said Prabhat Singh Jha and Pankaj Kumar Jha could not be saved.
- On Thursday, two railway engineers died after soil collapsed at an under-construction underpass near Dara Valley on NH-52 in Rajasthan during 8 pm box-pushing operations.
- Engineers Prabhat Singh Jha and Pankaj Kumar Jha were inspecting the site while laborers were absent, as the underpass project aimed to alleviate chronic traffic congestion near Kota.
- Rescue teams using LNT and JCB machines pulled the engineers from debris within 15 minutes; doctors at a private hospital in Kota pronounced both men dead on arrival.
- Following the incident, Railway officials and the Kota Municipal Corporation fire department launched operations immediately, and authorities sent the bodies for postmortem examinations scheduled for Friday morning.
- Kanwas SDM Babulal Meena noted that only the two engineers were present when the soil caved in, while Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Saurabh Jain confirmed the immediate rescue response.
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