December 20, 2020 5:05:05 am
The street where the factory is located, sealed by the police.
At around 10 a.m., the roof of a factory in Vishnu Garden’s Khyala collapsed, trapping six workers working inside. Four of them were dead when they were taken to the hospital. The factory owner, Mahendra Pal, a resident of Uttam Nagar, has been arrested, police confirmed.
Around 10 a.m. a call was received from PCR regarding the fall of the lamplighter and the trapped workers. “The police arrived at the scene and discovered that it was a former engine stamping factory. The roof made to cover the area between the ground floor and the first floor of the factory had collapsed. The injured were rushed to the GGS and DDU hospitals, ”said DCP (West) Deepak Purohit.
Atul Garg, chief of the Delhi Fire Service, said the building was made of pieces of metal and other raw materials, and was overloaded with material, so it collapsed.
Guddi Begum (45), one of the victims, had gone to work 10 minutes earlier that day, while her son Rizwan arrived half an hour after her. Her husband Mumtaz Shah (50) said: “When Rizwan arrived at the factory, a floor had collapsed. Neighbors told me about the incident and I rushed to see what had happened. My wife had been crushed by a false ceiling that had collapsed … I recognized her by her sari. I had to get it out myself. “
He added that heavy materials were stored in the false ceiling. Guddi is survived by two sons and a daughter.
He hailed from Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh and had been working for eight years in the factory, where parts for a fan were made. The family said they were unable to reach the factory owner, Mahendra Pal, after the incident.
At 9 am, Chaina Devi (35) had tea and went to work, said her husband Nand Ram (38). “Our rented room is a few steps from the factory. Around 9.30 am, I heard a loud noise. People were running towards the place. I dropped everything and ran … I realized that she no longer existed. “
Chaina had been working at the factory for about 2 years. He had gone to his village in Saharanpur in UP during the lockdown and returned to work three months earlier. With three children aged 11, 8 and 6, Nand Ram was concerned about how he would run the household on a salary of Rs 7,000 a month. Chaina would earn Rs 6,500 a month, he said.
Both men said they would take the bodies to Uttar Pradesh for the last rites.
Two other victims were identified as Ramesh (35), a native of Bihar, and Twinkle (25). The two injured have been admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and Guru Gobind Singh Government Hospital.
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