Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
At least 43 people, many of whom were believed to be labourers, died after a fire broke out at a factory in a crowded and congested central Delhi neighbourhood on Sunday morning. Reported at 5.22 am, the blaze occurred in a four-storey building which, like many in the area, housed illegally set up factories and employed labourers from neighbouring states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. At least 50 such labourers were believed to be sleeping inside the workshop. The cramped rooms and narrow doorways of the building acted as a death trap once the fire started and people panicked in an attempt to escape.
