Neemuch: Three labourers and two security guards died here on Thursday after they fell into a tank at a soya plant in Jamunia Kalan village near here.
Initially, an employee entered a tank of Adani Wilmar Ltd to clean it but he fell into it. Later, four more people including two security staff also entered it but they too fell into it, Neemuch city police station in-charge Shivkumar Yadav said.
All of them drowned in the tank, he said.
The deceased were identified as Yuvraj Singh Chandrawat (33), Raisingh (30), Deepak Yadav (28), Ravi Soni (24) and Rajendra Singh (24), Yadav said.
The police sent the bodies for autopsy and is further probing into the incident.
Expressing grief about the incident, local MLA Dilip Singh Parihar said that he has informed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh about the incident and demanded relief for affected families.