India, Nov. 8 -- A 28-year-old contractor was killed and four workers were injured when the shuttering of a roof slab collapsed in Ghaziabad's Modinagar on Saturday, police said. They added that an FIR has been registered against the house owner and his son.

Police identified the deceased as Gauri Shankar alias Chotu, while the injured workers were identified as Sachin Kumar, 28, Deepak Pal, 30, Soni, 32, and Narendra Kumar, 32.

Siddharth Gautam, ACP of Modinagar Circle, told HT: "The workers had erected shuttering to cast the roof slab. However, on Saturday morning, the shuttering collapsed, bringing down the concrete mixture onto the workers below. Of the eight workers on site, five were trapped under the debris. They were rescued by ...