Lucknow: At least three workers were killed and over a dozen others feared trapped after a stone quarry collapsed in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, about 400 kilometres from here.

According to the officials, a huge chunk of rock fell on the laborers while they were engaged in ‘illegal’ mining activities in the Billi-Markundi area in the district on Saturday.

Three bodies have so far been recovered, sources said, adding that the number of dead was likely to increase.

Rescue operations were being carried out in full swing and teams of NDRF and SDRF had reached the spot from the neighboring Mirzapur district.

Reports said that around 15 laborers were trapped under the debris though this number could be more.

District magistrate B.N.Singh said that an inquiry had been ordered into th

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