Noida, Dec 17 (PTI) A worker died when the soil of a pit being dug to lay cable for a telephone line collapsed in the ??Sector 126 police station area of the Gautam Buddha Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday.

Inspector in-charge of Sector 126 police station Bhupendra Baliyan said that Adil (22) and his other friend were digging a deep pit to lay cable for a telephone line on Monday near the Asgarpur village when the soil caved in.

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Both of them got buried under the soil, Baliyan said, adding that they were taken out and admitted to a hospital, where Adil died.

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