Bhawanipatna: A pall of gloom descended on Jubang village under Gunupur police limits of Kalahandi district on Monday morning after the body of a migrant labourer, who died in a wall collapse incident in Kerala, arrived home.

The deceased, identified as Uday Majhi of Jubang village under Thuamul Rampur block, was working with a contractor agency in Kakkodi under Kozhikode district’s Elathur police station area.

According to reports, on November 1, while Majhi was engaged in construction work, a house wall suddenly collapsed, trapping him under a concrete slab. The slab reportedly fell on his head, leaving him critically injured. Though the police and local authorities rescued him and rushed him to a nearby hospital, doctors declared him dead upon arrival.

The body reached his native vi

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