A senior hospital official said a total of 37 injured workers were brought to the facility.
Ten minutes before wrapping up his shift, Tarun Kumar (23), a migrant worker from Bihar’s Chapra, was gripped with panic in the early hours of Thursday. Along with more than 200 night-shift workers, he was trapped at a Noida factory when a huge fire broke out. At least 37 people were injured in the blaze, said officials.
“Around 5:30 am, I rushed to break the glass… the exits were hardly accessible due to the smoke. But the glass was so thick that it could not be broken… I saw a small door and jumped from the third floor,” he later told The Indian Express at a hospital where he was admitted with injuries. Many like him suffered injuries not from the blaze at the factory, Capital Power Systems Limited, in Noida’s Sector 4, that makes electric meters but during the bid to escape the fire.
