Hyderabad, March 28 || The body of a second worker was retrieved from the debris of a collapsed building in Telangana’s Bhadrachalam town in the early hours of Friday.
Rescue teams retrieved the body of Padishala Upender Rao around 2.30 a.m., nearly 24 hours after the body of Kameshwar Rao was found under the rubble.
The body of Upender was shifted to the local Government Area Hospital for autopsy. With this, the rescue teams concluded their operation.
The under-construction ground-plus-five-story building in the town in Bhadradri Kothagudem district collapsed on Wednesday afternoon, trapping two construction workers.
Personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), fire services department and police participated in the rescue operation.
Kameshwar Rao was rescued around 2.30 a.m. on Thursday. He was then transferred to Government Area Hospital, where he succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.
The under-construction building at Super Bazaar Centre in the temple down collapsed due to an alleged structural fault.
District Collector Jitesh Patil, Superintendent of Police B. Rohith Raju and other senior officials supervised the rescue operation.