BENGALURU: Even as rescue teams continued their search for two workers who went missing inside a BWSSB sewage treatment plant (STP), anti-manual scavenging activists Friday alleged that the men were illegally employed and made to undertake hazardous work without adequate safeguards. The water authority, however, denied that the incident amounted to manual scavenging and maintained that the workers had entered the facility without authorisation.

Three workers fell into the 40-foot-deep sewage treatment plant, but only one of them could be rescued.

BENGALURU: Even as rescue teams continued their search for two workers who went missing inside a BWSSB sewage treatment plant (STP), anti-manual scavenging activists Friday…