A person stood on the road and two others injured when were hit by the stones due to blast at the nearby stone crushing unit at Aliyabad in Vijayapur taluk on Thursday.

Mohan Naik, 45, who was standing on the nearby road killed when a big sized stone hit him due to blast and injured Girish Halli and Sachin Halli inside the Savalagi Crushing Unit. The condition of both the injured undergoing treatment at the government hospital is said to be critical.The Mining Department had issued permission to blast only during night, however, the unit also used to blast the boulders in the day by using gelatin sticks.Not only the nearby residents, but even other crushing units operating around had also told Savalagi unit not to blast at day. Those at the unit escaped after the incident.The Vijayapur Rural police have registered a case.