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 in Gurugram on June 13, police said.
According to police, the incident took place around 10:30 a.m. when a mound of mud, around six feet high, fell on eight labourers digging a pond at Darapur village. The digging activity was being carried out under the MGNREGA, the rural employment scheme.
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.
