Seven migrant labourers, including five from Madhya Pradesh were killed and five others were injured after a massive rock slid down from a hillside and crashed into a stone quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Thursday, with the state government ordering an inquiry into the incident to determine whether the quarry was operating in accordance with mining and safety regulations | India News

Police said workers had begun their routine shift when a large section of rock detached from the upper portion of the quarry and crashed onto those working below | Bengaluru News

A few people were working on top of the boulder. They were trying to free the boulder, which broke free and rolled down. It fell on a tractor being loaded with crushed stones.

Eight labourers from Bihar died in Bengaluru after a granite rock collapsed at a stone quarry during operations.