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Telangana: Death toll rises to 10 in mishap in Narayanpet

<span style="color: #222222;">In Telangana, the death toll in a mishap in Narayanpet district this morning has risen to 10. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">NREGP labourers, all of them women, were killed after a mound of earth collapsed burying them alive. They were employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP) at Tileru village in the district. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to local authorities, more than a hundred labourers were engaged in digging earth for the construction of an irrigation channel near a hillock in Tileru village. Some of the workers took shelter in the shadow of a mound of earth to protect themselves from the scorching sun. The mound suddenly collapsed on them. Five other workers managed to escape and those who got injured are being treated at a local hospital.</span><br />''  <br />

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