India, April 18 -- An inquiry has been ordered into the deaths of two sanitation workers that took place while they were cleaning a 25-feet-deep sewer line without any safety gear in Nuh on Tuesday, officials said.

The inquiry was ordered by Nuh deputy commissioner Akhil Pilani on Friday, and Firozpur Jhirka subdivisional magistrate Laxmi Narayan will be heading the probe, district administration officials said.

Officials added that the reports will be submitted within a week.

Rajender Kumar alias Kalva, 27 and Abdul Kalam, 30 had suffocated to death after entering the sewer at the Ambedkar chowk between 9.20pm and 9.30pm on Tuesday.

A third worker, Mohammad Arbaz alias Bhura, 28, who went in the sewer to pull the duo out, was critica...