Two labourers drown in an overflowing manhole at Govandi

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Amid heavy rain that lashed the city on Saturday, two men drowned after falling into a manhole of an overflowing drain at Govandis Shivaji Nagar on Saturday evening...

According to officials, the two men had been carrying out routine water flow tests..

They added that the channel had been overflowing following the heavy rain, which lashed large parts of the city on Saturday...

However, Abu Azmi, Samajwadi Party MLA representing the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constituency, alleged, in a tweet, that the labourers had died by electrocution...

Today, two labourers lost their lives due to electrocution on Road No. 10 at 90 feet road of my constituency, Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Govandi, who went to check sewage lines, read the tweet..