Two watchmen crushed under sacks of wheat in Moga warehouse

Kulwinder Sandhu
Tribune News Service
Moga, March 3

Two watchmen were crushed under the weight of wheat sacks that fell from some rakes in a private godown leased by the state warehouse corporation on Baghapuaran-Nihalsinghwala road on the outskirts of Baghapurana town in Moga district, police said on Wednesday.

Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Paramjit Singh, who was one of the first responders after the incident, said a 55-year-old man, Bhajan Singh, and his colleague, 54-year-old Baljit Singh, were the two victims.

Singh said Bhajan Singh’s son Arshdeep Singh tried to call his father several times but got no response, prompting him to come down to the warehouse to look. At the warehouse, he saw the fallen sacks of wheat but no sign of his father, the policeman said. Arshdeep then tried calling his father again, and found his father lying under the bags of wheat, the policeman said.

Arshdeep Singh and some other people dragged the two bodies from under the pile, and immediately took them to a hospital, which declared they were brought dead, the policeman said, adding authorities had conducted an autopsy and sent back the victims’ bodies to their families.