India, March 15 -- Two labourers, a husband-wife duo, died on the spot, and one person was injured after an under-construction brick compound wall collapsed on them at Jyotiba Nagar in Talwade on Friday.

According to officials, the open plot belongs to businessman Sadashiv Agale, the owner of Induction Thermal Company. Agale had awarded a contract to Deepak Devaji Jadhav, a resident of Chakan, for constructing a brick compound wall around the plot.

For the work, Jadhav had hired labourers from a labour naka, including Sachin Shankar Rathod, 30, a resident of Medankar Wadi in Chakan and originally from Loha in Nanded district; his wife, Komal Sachin Rathod, 25; and Manohar Bhiku Chavan, 38, a resident of Gadge Ali in Chakan.

According t...