Four persons of the same family, who had gone allegedly to pilfer coal from an opencast mine of the Eastern Coalfields Limited, were killed when a large coal chunk fell on them in West Burdwan’s Laodoha on Wednesday.
Another person from the same family has been injured.
Police identified the deceased as Annahari Bauri, 50, Shyamal Bauri, 23, Natabar Bauri, 25, and Pinki Bauri, 22. They were rescued by police and sent to hospital where all were declared brought dead. The injured has been identified as Kishore Bauri, 22.
The incident comes at a time the CBI is probing allegations of coal pilferage from ECL mines in Asansol and Durgapur since November last year in which names of some Bengal ruling party leaders have cropped up.
