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Factory collapse: 5 dead, several trapped in Lahore
LAHORE: At least five people have been killed while several others including women and children are trapped under rubble of a
three- storey building of a pharmaceutical company which collapsed due to a boiler explosion, Geo News reported.
Three houses alongside the building were also razed to the ground.
According to the details, five dead bodies including that of a women and child and eight injured people have been pulled out and
shifted to the hospital.
Rescue workers and people continue to remove the debris in an effort to fear the approximately 50 people trapped inside. .
AFP adds: The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines came crashing down when a gas explosion ripped
through the premises, police said.
Rescue workers dug through the rubble with bare hands, desperate to answer trembling cries for help from people trapped beneath
concrete slabs as sobbing relatives urged rescuers to do everything possible to recover their loved ones.
Police said the factory was illegal without the proper registration and that they were looking to arrest its three partners.
The accident at the 25-year-old factory was likely to highlight poor safety procedures among Pakistani manufacturers and with a 12-
year-old boy among the dead, the use of child labour.
By: The News
Monday, February 6, 2012
0800 Central Time
Six now Dead, 50 Trapped in Pakistan Factory Collapse
Four women and two children were killed, with dozens of others
trapped under rubble when a factory collapsed in Pakistan's city of Lahore on
Monday, officials said.
The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines
came crashing down, probably the result of a boiler and a gas cylinder explosion
at the premises in the congested Multan Road area, police said.
Rescue workers dug through the rubble with bare hands, desperate
to answer trembling cries for help from people trapped beneath concrete slabs as
sobbing relatives urged rescuers to do everything possible to recover their
loved ones.
Police said the Orient Labs (Private) Limited factory was illegal
as it was without the proper registration, and they were hunting down its three
partners.
The accident at the 25-year-old factory will likely highlight poor
safety procedures among Pakistani manufacturers and, with a 12-year-old boy
among the dead, the use of child labor.
"Three bodies have been pulled out. Two are women and one a child.
There are two other bodies of women still under the rubble," senior police
official Ghulam Mehmood Dogar told Agence France Presse at the site.
Rescue workers later emerged with one of the bodies wrapped in a
white sheet, and later with another body, that of a 14-year-old boy, which was
put in a waiting ambulance and driven to hospital, an AFP correspondent
said.
Police had also reported the death, earlier, of a 12-year-old
boy.
"Eighteen people have been accounted for and 45 to 50 are still
feared to be buried under the rubble," Dogar said.
An AFP photographer said he saw the hand of a motionless woman
lying under the rubble. Rescue worker Mohammad Asif also put the death toll at
five, saying one boy and four women had been killed.
"The workers were mostly women and children who were engaged in
packing up the medicines," Asif told AFP.
Mohammad Akram, 50, said he ran to the site shortly after 8:00 am
(0300 GMT), desperately worried about his 10-year-old son, Asad, a packer.
"I came here rushing and weeping but luckily my son has been
rescued. He is injured and alive. But my 12-year old nephew is still
missing."
The main working hours were 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, but employees were
quite often required to work late into the night as well, Akram said.
The rescue effort was hampered by narrow lanes and it took time
for heavy cranes and excavators to reach the area.
"It's a big disaster. It is too early to say when we'll finish. We
want to recover alive as many people as possible," said rescue worker Ahmed
Raza.
Workers and volunteers used everything they could -- hammers,
axes, chisels and shovels -- to shift the rubble and pull out the injured,
coated in dust, as relatives stood by, sobbing, and a crowd of local residents
gathered to watch.
One slightly injured girl pulled out of the rubble was too
frightened and panicked to tell reporters and rescue workers what she
remembered.
A 55-year-old housewife refusing to give her name accused the
government of providing no security to taxpayers.
"There are factories working illegally in residential areas. We
have lodged complaints in the past but who will listen to us?" she said in
desperation.
As the afternoon wore on, workers started to assemble search
lights with the help of a generator, readying for a night of painstaking
work.
"The search will continue throughout the night. We have to be very
careful, it is the question of human lives," he added.
A small group of about 15 to 20 workers protested at the site,
carrying the red flags of Pakistan's Labor Party and shouting: "Who is
accountable for the flood of these innocent workers? We want an answer."
Eight million people live in Lahore, 253 kilometers southeast of
the capital Islamabad. It is considered Pakistan's cultural capital and perhaps
the most liberal city in the conservative Muslim country.
By:
Agence France Presse
Monday, February 6, 2012
1030 Central Time
Ten now Dead, People Still Trapped
LAHORE:
At least ten people have been killed while several others including women and
children are trapped under the rubble of a three-storey building of a pharmaceutical company
which collapsed due to a boiler explosion, Geo News reported.
Three houses alongside the building were also razed to the
ground.
According to the details, ten dead bodies including that of a women and child
and 12 injured people have been pulled out and shifted to the hospital.
Rescue workers and people continue to remove the debris in an effort to fear
the approximately 50 people trapped inside. .
AFP adds: The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines came crashing down when a gas
explosion ripped through the premises, police said.
Rescue workers dug through the rubble with bare hands, desperate to answer
trembling cries for help from people trapped beneath concrete slabs as sobbing
relatives urged rescuers to do everything possible to recover their loved ones.
Police said the factory was illegal without the proper registration and that
they were looking to arrest its three partners.
The accident at the 25-year-old factory was likely to highlight poor safety
procedures among Pakistani manufacturers and with a 12-year-old boy among the
dead, the use of child labour.
By:
News
Monday, February 6, 2012
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4 killed, 20 injured in dyeing unit blast
KARUR: Four persons were killed and 20 others sustained
varying degrees of burn injuries, including three in critical condition, when a
boiler exploded at a private dyeing factory in Karur on Tuesday. About 60
workers were employed in the ill-fated dyeing unit which
was sealed by the
district administration soon after the incident, said Karur SP Nagaraj.
Karur, a textile hub in the central region, boasts a large number of
dyeing units and employs a large number of persons from northern districts on
cheap labour.
The incident occurred when one of the hot water boilers at
a private dyeing unit in Chellandipalayam, some five km from Karur, exploded
around 11 am and the resultant impact triggered the explosion of two more gas
cylinders in the factory that further aggravated the situation. All the four
persons were killed on the spot. Nagaraj said that of
the 20 persons who sustained serious burns have been admitted to the Karur
government hospital. Of the four killed two of the victims Gandhi (55) and
Bhaskar (49) hailed from Karur while the other two, Ramjith (26) and Ramprasad
(28) were from Bihar, said Karur DSP Manohar.
Police said the relief
work was hampered as there was smoke and the blast had devastated
the whole factory into smithereens. The fire brigade was still searching the
place for more bodies as confusion prevailed about the exact number of persons
who were at work at the time of the explosion.
State transport minister
Balaji visited the victims at the government hospital on Tuesday night. Tamil Nadu chief
minister J Jayalalithaa has announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs one lakh to those who died in the
accident, Rs 25,000 to the grievously injured and Rs 10,000 to those with minor
injuries.
Interestingly, the district administration had taken action on
the erring dyeing units to down shutters following a high court order for
violating the norm of zero-percent discharge from the units.
By:
The Times of India
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
5 Now Dead!
The death toll an boiler explosion at a dyeing unit at suburban Sellndipalayam
on Wednesday last rose to five with the death of a 35-year-old person at a
private hospital in Coimbatore. Police said deceased was identified as Saravanan
of Karur. Four persons were killed and 20 injured in the accident at the deying
unit. The toll rose to five with Saravanan s death today from burn injuries
sustained in the incident. Police had already arrested Loganathan, the dyeing
unit owner, in connection with the incident.
Boiler explosion toll rises to 6
Wednesday, Dec 14 2011
The death toll in the boiler explosion that took place at Sellndipalayam near
here on December 7, in which five people were killed and 20 others injured, rose
to six, following the death of a 26-year-old woman today. She succumbed to her
burn injuries at a private hospital in Coimbatore today, police said. They said
the deceased was identified as Mrs Karthika Devi of Sellandipalayam. Police had
arrested Loganathan, the owner of the dyeing unit in connection with the
incident.
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4 Injured in Hai Phong City Paper Company Boiler Explosion
A large steam boiler suddenly exploded at the My Huong Paper Joint Stock Company
in Hai Phong City’s An Lao District, seriously
injuring six workers -- four men
and two women -- who were later admitted to a local hospital in critical
condition.
The US$143,000 boiler, which was totally destroyed, was
certified to meet technical qualification standards in March 2010, said Vu
Khac
Long, the company director.
The local police have examined the scene and
are investigating the cause of the explosion.
By:
Tuoitrenews.vn
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Factory Boiler Explosion in Bangladesh,
2 Dead Over 50 Injured
Dhaka, A boiler explosion at a garment factory in Bangladesh left 2 people dead and
over 50 others injured at readymade garment factory in
Chankharpool in Dhaka. The explosion triggered a stampede.
"The incident took place at Euro Tex Limited
in Matin Plaza around Saturday noon," Dhaka Medical College Hospital police
camp's sub-inspector Mozammel Haque told bdnews24.com.
The deceased have
been identified as 30-year Jasmine Akhter and 20-year old 'Taslima'.
The
incident took place hours after a fire gutted the three-storied showroom and
warehouse of shoe company Bata in Gulistan.
"We heard the sound of an
explosion on the second floor of the seven-storied factory. Rumours spread that
a boiler has burst and that the factory has caught fire. Everyone scrambled to
leave the building and a stampede followed," Sohrab Hossain, a worker of the
factory being treated at the hospital, told bdnews24.com.
Another worker
who gave only one name, 'Mala', said the doors to one of the stairs were locked
and that a number of workers were trampled on as everyone tried to escape. At
one point, the railing of the stairs broke down on the first floor and many
workers were injured after they fell.
The fire service's control room
official Nilufar Yasmin said that their crew did not find traces of fire at the
factory. The accident occurred after the workers panicked and rushed to evacuate
the building seeing the vapour from the boiler.
No sign of any fire was
seen at the site.
Kashem Dewan, a worker on the second floor, said that
a hot water connection to the boiler broke open and a large amount of steam
flowed into the floor. The steam cloud sparked fears of a fire and the workers
started running for the exits, he added.
Saleha Begum, who worked on the
sixth floor, told bdnews24.com: "The collapsible gates at the bottom of the
stairs were closed. Everyone piled on the stairs increasing the pressure on it
and at one point the stairs gave away with workers falling on those below
leading to the injuries and the deaths."
However another worker 'Nipa'
alleged that an official closed the gate and was urging the workers to return
upstairs saying that nothing happened. The injuries and deaths occurred due to
the rush then.
The workers brought the bodies of their two colleagues
from the hospital to the factory around 2.30pm. Some angry workers vandalised
the windowpanes and furniture of the factory and also assaulted the factory's
production manager Ashraf Hossain. Police rescued Hossain after a while.
Chawkbazar police OC Mohammad Ali told bdnews24.com: "The workers
forcefully brought the body of the two deceased to the factory without allowing
an autopsy on them. We are trying to take the bodies back to the hospital."
Later, in the afternoon, the workers shouted slogans in front of the
factory demanding that the dead bodies be handed over to relatives without
autopsy and compensations from the company.
"Relatives of the deceased
have had meetings with the representative of BGMEA, factory owners, workers'
federation and police. The owners have agreed to pay compensation," assistant
police commissioner of Lalbagh zone Afruzul Haque Tutul told bdnews24.com.
Relatives have taken the body of Jasmine to Keraniganj and of 'Taslima'
to Chandpur for burial. They have been given some money for the burial, added
Afruzul.
Police and RAB members have been deployed at the factory to
avert further unpleasant incidents.
By:
IBN Live
Sunday, December 4, 2011 |
Explosion at Chinese chemical plant kills
14
XINTAI, China
An explosion at a chemical plant in China’s Shandong Province on Saturday killed
14 and injured five, UPI reported.
The blast occurred while workers were performing
maintenance on a condenser.
Chinese officials have not indicated
what chemical may have been involved in the accident.
The explosion
remains under investigation
By: Global Processing
Monday, November 21, 2011
UPI Version
XINTAI, China, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Chinese officials reported 14 deaths and five
injuries in an explosion at a chemical plant in Shandong Province.
Saturday's blast ripped through the Shandong Liaherd Chemical Industry
facility in the city of Xintai while workers were performing maintenance on a
condenser, city officials said in a written statement.
There was no word on what chemicals may have been involved in the explosion
or if any toxic gases were released.
China's Xinhua news agency said Sunday the cause of the explosion remained
under investigation.
By: UPI
Saturday, November 19, 2011
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