Three workers dead, six injured in Delhi's Narela food processing unit fire

Three workers were killed and six injured after a fire broke out and caused a blast in a food processing unit in the Narela Industrial Area in the early hours of Saturday the Delhi Police saidThe police received a distress call at 335 am about the fire at the factory of Shayam Kripa Foods Private Limited which processed dry moong dal it saidThe fire engulfed the factory trapping some workers inside a police officer saidFourteen fire tenders were pressed into service and the blaze was doused by noon a Delhi Fire Services official saidHe said nine people were rescued from the building and admitted to Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital in NarelaThe police officer said three of them Shyam 24 Ram Singh 30 and Beerpal 42 were declared dead while the others are undergoing treatmentThe injured Pushpender 26 Akash 19 Mohit Kumar 21 Ravi Kumar 19 Monu 25 and Lalu 32 are undergoing treatment at Safdarjung Hospital for burn injuries he addedPreliminary investigations suggest that the blaze started after a gas leak from one of the pipelines The pipelines supplied gas to burners used for roasting the moong dal the officer saidAs the fire spread it caused the compressor to overheat resulting in a blast he saidThe blast was so strong that one wall of a room also collapsed he addedThe victims family members alleged that they worked 12hour shifts instead of eight for Rs 12000 to Rs 20000 per month depending on their experienceThe factory owners had hired about 20 workersRam Singh a native of Uttar Pradeshs Auraiya is survived by his wife and a sixyearold daughterHis uncle Avdhesh Singh said His family lives in their native village and was solely dependent on him He earned about Rs 14000 a month Who will take care of themBeerpals son Akash said he would help his father run the family by driving a taxiI have a younger brother and two teenage sisters They are all studying I dont know how we will survive now Akash saidBeerpal was a native of Uttar Pradeshs Mainpuri but lived in the factory His family lives in west Delhis Nangloi areaAkash said his father would come home once or twice a month to meet themShyam a native of Uttar Pradeshs Kannauj lived on the first floor of the building with the other workers and worked on the ground floor which housed all the machinery his cousin Bhola saidHe had a night shift on Friday Bhola addedThe factory owners Rohini residents Ankit Gupta and Vinay Gupta were arrested after they failed to provide documents related to the unit which had been running since 2010 another officer saidDeputy Commissioner of Police Outer North Ravi Kumar Singh said a case under sections 285 negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter 287 negligent conduct with respect to machinery 337 causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others and 304 A causing death by negligence of the Indian Penal Code has been registeredThe owners failed to provide the fire noobjection certificate and it appeared that the factory was running without proper safety measures he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever