3 workers killed in Bichanakandi landslide

Three workers have been killed in a landslide while lifting stones at a quarry in Bichanakandi of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila.

The incident took place in the wee hours of Friday while workers were extracting stones on Basid Mia’s field near Badepasha Kheya Ghat, said Delwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Gowainghat Police Station.

Identities of the deceased could not be known as the workers of the stone quarry hid the dead bodies to cover up the incident, he added.

On January 23, five stone workers were killed as a portion of a hillock collapsed on them while they were lifting stone from Shah Arefin Tila in Companiganj of Sylhet.