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Driver killed as boulder crashes on excavator
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Operater of the Hitachi stone drilling machine who was killed when the stone the stone crushed him to death at Giridhama layout in BEML 3rd stage of rajarajeswarinagar in Bengaluru on Monday.
Operater of the Hitachi stone drilling machine who was killed when the stone the stone crushed him to death at Giridhama layout in BEML 3rd stage of rajarajeswarinagar in Bengaluru on Monday.
A 24-year-old driver of an excavator died after a boulder fell on him when he was levelling the ground in Giridham Layout in West Bengaluru's  Rajarajeshwari Nagar on Monday evening.

Pushpendra Kumar, from Uttar Pradesh, worked for Malabar Rock Cutting Company which had taken a contract to  level  the land belonging to one Babu. A boulder from atop fell on the Hitachi excavator that was being steered by Kumar to clear stones. He died on the spot.  

Police said his  relatives had been informed and that they were awaiting more  details.  

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(Published 02 January 2018, 00:32 IST)