3 men die in Bengaluru while cleaning a manhole
Three contract workers died due to suffocation while cleaning a blocked manhole on the premises of ND Sepal Apartments in Bengaluru's Somasundarapalya. Terming the incident a human rights violation, Bengaluru Mayor Sampath Raj said, "There is negligence by the apartment owners. The workers did not have any protective gear." Manual scavenging was banned across India in 1993.