Kundpaur: A manual labourer was killed after the earth caved in on Sunday while the area was being dug up for laying underground pipes near Vyaraya Math in the town.
The deceased was identified as Rupesh Paswan (21) from Bihar.
Work for laying the pipes had been going on from the past few days. However, on Sunday, the earth caved him, burying Rupesh alive. He suffocated to death before he could be rescued.