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Four dead in landslide at NMDC's Chhattisgarh mine, police sayFour people were killed and two injured in a landslide at NMDC's iron ore mine in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday.
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<div class="paragraphs"><p>Representative image of an iron ore mine.</p></div>

Representative image of an iron ore mine.

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Four people were killed and two injured in a landslide at NMDC's iron ore mine in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday.

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"Construction and rock-breaking work was going on. This was a landslide accident, but the actual reason is yet to be known," Gaurav Rai, a top Dantewada police officer, told Reuters.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, and the workers were employees of Larsen and Toubro (L&T), Rai added.

NMDC and L&T did not immediately reply to Reuters' request for comment.

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(Published 27 February 2024, 18:57 IST)