Mangaluru, Jun 21, 2021: A labourer escaped the jaws of death by a hair’s breadth in a land slip from a hillock during the construction of a retention wall on the roadside at Margadangadi-Nonal in Muttur Gram Panchayat limits on June 20, Sunday evening.
The retential wall was being constructed to prevent land slip on a road linking Ganjimutt to Moolarapatna. Three workers were engaged in the work when the mishap took place.
The labourer who narrowly escaped in the incident is Rajesh Poojary (28). Though mounds of mud fell over him, his head was luckily outside. He was rescued in an operation that lasted for nearly two hours.