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Cuttack: The laxity in safety norms of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) during a sewerage cleaning work came to fore on Wednesday, after a man was killed after falling into an uncovered drain in Meria Bazaar area.
The deceased has been identified as Santosh Kumar Dash (30) of Meria Bazaar area.
The incident took place late in the night while the victim was on his way to home. While walking down the footpath on the slabs of a roadside drain he failed to spot a gap in those and ended up slipping into the water. He drowned in the drain immediately.
Tension ran high at the spot following the incident after locals held CMC responsible for it. They said no caution notice had been put near the drain of which the cleaning work was underway for last three days.
Commissionerate Police and fire brigade team reached the spot getting information on the incident later in the night and fished out the body of the victim from the drain and rushed for postmortem.