New Delhi, May 29 -- Two railway engineers were killed after a section of earth beneath an under-construction underpass caved in on NH-52 near Dara Ghati in Rajasthan's Kota district on Thursday evening, officials said. The tragic incident occurred around 8 pm under the Modak police station limits while the engineers were inspecting the construction site.

The deceased were identified as Prabhat Singh (30), a probationary Junior Engineer from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, and Sanjay Kumar Jha (47), a Senior Section Engineer from Dhamaura in Bihar's West Champaran district.

Kota Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Sourabh Jain told PTI that a section of soil at the under-construction underpass suddenly gave way, trapping the two engineers be...