HYDERABAD, India (From news reports) -- Three workers died of asphyxia in a paper mill in the Site area of Hyderabad on Saturday, 24 Dec 2016.

The mill management and rescuers are said to have retrieved the bodies after cutting the walls of a tank into which they had fallen while cleaning it and where gas had accumulated.

The rescuers moved the bodies to the Liaquat University Hospital. Medico-Legal Officer Dr Baldev confirmed that the laborers were brought dead to the hospital.

They have been identified as Wali Mohammad, Ghulam Mohammad and Allah Rakhio. The mill set up in the early 1970s is presently closed.

According to another paper mill's owner, the production process leads to collection of waste in the tank which causes accumulation of ammonia gas that could be life-threatening if a laborer falls into it.

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