If Sub Divisional police Officer Purushottam Kumar Singh is to be believed, a 100-foot-high silo, a cylindrical tower for storing bulk materials, collapsed in the command area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district.

The incident took place at Madhuban washery under BCCL Block-2 area under Baghmara police station area on intervening night of Friday- Saturday.

This was informed by Baghmara sub-divisional police officer Purushottam Kumar Singh.

The cause of the collapse of the silo is not known. “The matter will be investigated”, a BCCL official said.

Baghmara MLA Shatrughan Mahato, who visited the site, said, “There were three silos in the area. The first silo had the entrance for the remaining two. The entrance silo collapsed all of a sudden on Friday night.”

A worker, who was working in the third tower, was trapped, the MLA said.

“He was rescued safely by the team on Saturday,” Mahato said adding that the silos were built around six or seven years ago and are being operated by an outsourced company.

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