<p class="title">Four persons of a family died of asphyxiation inside a newly-constructed septic tank at a village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Tuesday, an official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident occurred at Madhuban Kanti village under Bara Bharti panchayat of Minapur block this morning when a man, who went to remove the scaffolding of the newly-built septic tank, fell into it accidentally, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (East) Kundan Kumar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He died of suffocation after inhaling toxic gas, Kumar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another three persons of the family, who rushed to save the first one, entered the tank and also died of asphyxiation, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The deceased were identified as Madhusudan Sahni, Kaushal Kumar, Dharmendra Sahni and Veer Kumar Sahni, he said adding that all of them could be in the age-group of 30-35.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bodies were sent to Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital here for post-mortem.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Minapur Circle Officer Gyan Prasad Srivastava announced that an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh would be paid to the next of kin of those died in the incident. </p>
<p class="title">Four persons of a family died of asphyxiation inside a newly-constructed septic tank at a village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Tuesday, an official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident occurred at Madhuban Kanti village under Bara Bharti panchayat of Minapur block this morning when a man, who went to remove the scaffolding of the newly-built septic tank, fell into it accidentally, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (East) Kundan Kumar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He died of suffocation after inhaling toxic gas, Kumar said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another three persons of the family, who rushed to save the first one, entered the tank and also died of asphyxiation, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The deceased were identified as Madhusudan Sahni, Kaushal Kumar, Dharmendra Sahni and Veer Kumar Sahni, he said adding that all of them could be in the age-group of 30-35.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bodies were sent to Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital here for post-mortem.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Minapur Circle Officer Gyan Prasad Srivastava announced that an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh would be paid to the next of kin of those died in the incident. </p>