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Vijayawada: Three workers were crushed to death when boulders rolled over them even as they were drilling holes for blasting at a private quarry unit at Donabanda village in the NTR district on Monday.
The deceased were identified as B. Durga Raj (23), the driller and native of Cheruvu Madhavaram village, Ramdev Bhagel (33) of Chhattisgarh and B.V. Naik of Odisha.
The loose rocks, which had been displaced due to recent rains and previous blasting, slipped and fell leaving the workers crushed under the boulders.
Kanchikacharla police and mining officials rushed to the scene to recover the bodies and had to deploy heavy machinery to clear the debris.
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