Jalandhar: One Dead Due To Blast In Scrap Warehouse, Panic In The Area

The glass windows of the house were broken due to the explosion. photo awakening

Communication partner, Jalandhar. One person died, while two people were injured due to a blast in a scrap warehouse at around 10:55 am on Sunday morning in the foundation population of Santokhpura. Due to the explosion, the person's head and fingers of both hands were separated from the body.

There is a possibility of a blast due to compressor burst. After about one and a half hour after the accident, the forensic team reached the spot and started the investigation, till then the body remained lying on the ground. Instead of putting clothes on the dead body, people kept making videos and the family members of the deceased standing outside the warehouse kept cursing their fate after seeing the dead body.

The deceased has been identified as Shiv Mangal, resident of Sekhuiya village in Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh. The injured Rajinder and Ram Kumar Chauhan of Santokhpura are undergoing treatment in a private hospital. All three were brothers. Police of Station 8 has started investigation.

Jawahar was running a scrap warehouse in the basic population of Santokhpura for the last two and a half years. In the warehouse, old fridges, ACs and geysers were opened and separated. Like everyday, there were three people in the warehouse on Sunday morning. Shiv Mangal was working at one place and Rajinder and Ram Kumar Chauhan were working at some distance. Warehouse owner Jawahar had gone out.

Police investigation revealed that Rajinder and Ram Kumar Chauhan were opening the compressor of the refrigerator in the godown. Shiv Mangal came and stood near him to advise him. Thinking that the compressor was empty, he hit it with a hammer, but it was filled with gas, due to which he died due to the explosion.

However, this was not confirmed by any police officer. Sahil Chaudhary, in-charge of Police Station 8, said that only the forensic team will find out the cause of the blast. ACP North Sanjay said that his team is busy in the investigation.

The glass on the second floor of the school was broken due to the blast.

The explosion was so powerful that even the glass of the second floor of SD Public School, located about 40 feet away from the incident site, was broken. It was fortunate that there were no children in the school as it was a holiday, otherwise life could have resulted in harm.

There have been blasts in scrap warehouses before, lives have been lost.

This is not the first time that someone has lost their life in an accident in a scrap warehouse. About five years ago, a fire broke out during a blast in a scrap warehouse in Maqsudan area and one person died. A year ago, a fire broke out in a scrap warehouse in Nakhawala Bagh at around 3 o'clock in the night.

During that time, due to the explosion, cracks had appeared in the nearby houses. After the accident in Santokhpura, the people present at the spot said that permission should be taken from the authorities to open such warehouses in residential areas. Many people said that there are scrap warehouses in every area of ​​the city, where illegal business also runs.

Luck favored him, he himself survived, but could not save his friend.

Injured Rajinder's cousin Gamodar told that he had gone to the warehouse at 10 in the morning. Before the blast, Shiv Mangal, Rajinder and Ram Kumar were talking. He told that he was having headache since morning. He had left at around 10:30 to collect medicines from the warehouse.

While leaving the warehouse, Shiv Mangal was talking to him about the family. He was going towards the warehouse after taking medicines from the doctor when he got a call that Shiv Mangal had died due to a blast in the warehouse.

He said that luck favored him and he survived, but he could not save his friend Shiv Mangal. Saying this he had tears in his eyes.