Bodies of seven missing workers recovered from fire affected chemical unit

A day after a massive fire destroyed a chemical products manufacturing facility in the city of Surat, Gujarat, the bodies of seven missing workers were recovered from the facility in the early hours of Thursday, authorities said.

Of the seven people found dead in the chemical products manufacturing unit of Aether Industries Ltd in the industrial zone of Sachin in the city, one was an employee of the company, while the other six were working on contract, said the collector from Surat. Ayush Oak.

“During a search operation in the factory facilities, officials discovered the bodies of seven workers who disappeared after the fire that destroyed the plant on Wednesday”, he said.

The deceased have been identified as Divyesh Patel (employee of the company), Santosh Vishwakarma, Sanat Kumar Mishra, Dharmendra Kumar, Ganesh Prasad, Sunil Kumar and Abhishek Singh.

The collector said that 24 people who were injured in the incident are currently receiving treatment in different hospitals.

The fire broke out at the chemical plant around 2 a.m. on Wednesday after an explosion in a large tank following the leakage of inflammable chemical products stored in it, said the chief of firefighters at a cargo in Surat, Basant Pareek.

Up to 15 teams of firefighters participated in the extinguishing operation that lasted nine hours to control the fire.

In a statement dated November 29 and presented to the stock exchanges, the company said: “…we hereby inform that an incident of fire has been reported at the company’s manufacturing site in plot number 8203, “GIDC Sachin, Surat, early in the morning. .already at 01:50 hrs.” It was reported that approximately 25 people were injured as a result, he said.