It may not be an overstatement to say that assistant engineer Venkataraman and conservancy worker D. Sankar were killed by a failed system and the pressure it exerted rather than asphyxiation.

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The death of little Mahi, 5, in Haryana, puts the focus on the problem of open manholes in Chennai and elsewhere in TN.

The indifference of the civic administration is such that many associations of