Tribune News Service
Faridabad, September 19
A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon leaving six workers with injured at an electrical factory located in NIT area, here.
Out of six workers, two are seriously injured.
The fire was doused within an hour by five fire tenders rushed by the Municipal Corporation. The injured have been shifted to two hospitals.
Condition of the two injured workers is reported to be serious. They have been admitted to a private hospital.
The fire broke out around 12:45 pm. Over 60-70 workers were out for their lunch break. About a dozen people, who were inside the factory at the time, were rushed out or rescued.
Majority of them were victims of suffocation. Several blasts erupted in the container filed up with furnace oil kept inside, which engulfed soon all the containers having chemicals, they claimed.
The factory is located on the peripheral road in G-Block of the NIT. It is engaged in manufacturing electrical items. A major tragedy was averted as the majority of the workers were out.
The police arrived the spot soon, and soon launched a probe into the incident. They claimed, that the civic body was ill-equipped to deal with the fire incident.
A former Municipal Corporation, Yogesh Dhingra, said, that the government ought to provide state-of-the-art fire fighting arrangements in an industrial city like Faridabad to deal with such tragedies.
So far, no case been registered in this regard.
