CHENNAI: Former BJP state president K Annamalai on Sunday expressed deep shock and anguish over the tragic death of a sanitation worker who reportedly inhaled toxic fumes while engaged in cleaning a sewage canal at Tirupati Nagar main road in Kolathur, the constituency of Chief Minister M K Stalin.

In a statement, Annamalai said, “It is deeply distressing to learn that Kuppan, a contract sanitation worker, lost his life after being exposed to poisonous gases during the sewage cleaning operation. Two other workers, Shankar and Hariharan, who were working alongside him, are currently battling for their lives under intensive care at a hospital.”

The BJP leader recalled that it has been barely ten days since three sanitation workers died under similar circumstances in Tiruchirappalli’s Thir

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