A 47-year-old worker died and another was hospitalised in Mumbai after the two entered a municipal sewer chamber in Santacruz East without protective equipment on Monday. The men had been hired privately by a housing society through a retired municipal official to clear a blocked drainage line; police say no safety gear was provided and a public sewer manhole was opened without notifying city authorities. Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the city's main civic body, has distanced itself from the incident, noting the workers were private personnel, while police await a post-mortem report before filing formal charges.