Mumbai: Two workers die after falling off narrow cliff at Jivdani Temple

According to police, work on the project had started recently as the existing ropeway was able to ferry only a small number of devotees at a time.

Renuka Bagde, sub-divisional police officer, Virar, said the labourers fell on a bed of rocks below and sustained head injuries, and were declared dead after being rushed to a hospital nearby.

Police have lodged a case of accidental death. Bagde said the construction supervisor will be booked for causing death due to negligence. “We are investigating how the men were working at such a precarious spot and whether they had any safety equipment,” she said.