Three labourers died of suffocation while repairing an underground drainage pipeline near Someshwar locality today, police said.
"Prima facie they died of suffocation while cleaning the pipeline at around 4:30 PM. Their dead bodies are sent to civil hospital for postmortem," said Gangapur police station in-charge S B Pathan.
The deceased are identified as Gopinath dhondiba More (45), Prashant Chindhu Choudhari (27) and Hiraman Madhe (30), he said, adding that they were working for a private contractor.
