Three migrant labourers were killed after a brick kiln caved in at Ukhoo village in Kakapora area in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district Thursday afternoon, official sources said.

News agency GNS quoting officials reported three persons identified as, Lukman Khan son of Sulemaan, Raj Dev son of Devinder Kumar and Kalbi Khan, all residents of Uttar Pradesh came under a brick kiln.

The trio was subsequently shifted to a nearby hospital, where the doctors declared all of them as dead on arrival, the added.

Confirming the incident, a police official said that a team is on the site. “We have registered a case into the matter for further investigations”, the official added.