He said 325 people have died due to accidents while undertaking hazardous cleaning of sewer and septic tanks during the last five years.
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The incident happened shortly after midnight at Darshan Hotel in Fartikui village of Dabhoi tehsil, around 30 kms from Vadodara city.
Investigations revealed that Kishan, along with several other workers, was hired by a contractor to clean the Wazirabad drain.
The police arrested three people after a manual scavenger drowned in Delhi Jal Board Pump House.
In September, five men died after inhaling toxic fumes while working in a sewage treatment plant in west Delhi's Moti Nagar area.
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The two accused had close supervision on the operations of the sewage treatment plant, taking the total number of arrests to five.
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Report says, none of the workers were equipped with masks or any other safety gear.
