Gujarat: 12 labourers die as factory wall collapses in Morbi, PM Modi expresses grief
India | May 18, 2022 14:43 ISTThe tragic incident took place at Sagar Salt factory situated inside the Halvad industrial area of Morbi district in Gujarat.
The tragic incident took place at Sagar Salt factory situated inside the Halvad industrial area of Morbi district in Gujarat.
The neutralised terrorists were identified as Aijaz Hafiz and Shahid Ayub, belonging to the Al Badr terror outfit. Both of them were local terrorists, said an official.
PM Modi further said that the participation of the unorganised labour was very important in the development of the country.
Nearly 12 hours after a massive fire tragedy at a scrap godown in Hyderabad killed 11 people, all hailing from Bihar, the Nitish government appeared to be in a slumber.
The hill collapsed while miners were working inside the cave. As a result, big boulders of white stone rolled down the hill and collided with the tipper trucks and vehicles, causing them to overturn.
The police raid on Feb 9 had found dozes of labourers occupying hospital beds as patients.
The rescue operation is underway to rescue the remaining labourers with the help of a State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) team.
A gas leak tragedy in Surat's GIDC claimed lives of 5 labouers, while leaving many injured.
The incident took place at Khatraj village in Gandhinagar's Kalol.
The incident took place near Marghatia village in Satbarwa police station area when the labourers hailing from Kamaaru were going to Daltonganj railway station to board a train to Uttar Pradesh, where they work in brick kilns, officer-in-charge Karmpal Kumar Nag said.
Earlier in the day, two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists were killed and three security personnel injured in an encounter in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The United Liberation Front has claimed the responsibility for killing 11 civilians, including two labourers (both migrant workers) in Jammu and Kashmir. Terrorists had shot dead two civilians and injured another in Kulgam on Sunday, the latest in the series of attacks targeting civilians.
This came in wake of a terrorist attack in which two non-local labourers were shot dead and another injured in the Kulgam district of South Kashmir on Sunday.
At least two labourers were killed and another injured by terrorists in Kulgam district of South Kashmir, prompting the police to direct that all migrants in the Valley be brought to nearest security camps "immediately" for safety, officials said on Sunday.
According to officials, the gunmen entered the rented accommodation of the labourers and fired on them indiscriminately at the Wanpoh area of Kulgam district.
Mumbai Flyover Collapses: Fourteen people got injured when a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex.
A portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Mumbai's BKC area. Reports suggest that many labourers have been injured in the incident. Rescue operation is underway.
At least 13 labourers were killed when a truck carrying iron rods overturned in Maharashtra's Buldhana on Friday. A few labourers also suffered injuries, following which they were rushed to a government hospital in Jalna district.
The Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh said his government had decided to waive off loans amounting to Rs 520 crore of farm labor and landless farmers, with respect to the principal amount against their cooperative loans as of July 31, 2017, and simple interest at the rate of seven percent per annum on the above amount till March 6, 2019.
Around 10 houses were damaged in Melli Bazaar along with a secondary school, a State Bank of Sikkim branch and a road that connects NH-10 with Melli Bazaar on the Sikkim side.
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