Apr 23, 2025 09:59 PM IST
Paying attention to the incident, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed officers involved to go to the hospital and be sure that all needed help was supplied to the victims and their households.
Seven employees sustained extreme burns after a boiler exploded at a fast-food manufacturing facility in Sector 13 of the Gorakhpur Industrial Improvement Authority (GIDA) on Wednesday night. Many of the injured employees are from Araria district of Bihar.
A wall of the manufacturing facility caved in following boiler explosion on Wednesday night. (HT photograph)
In line with officers, three of the victims recognized as Umar Farooq, Majeed, and Issa suffered over 70 per cent burns and so they have been present process therapy at Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical Faculty. The remaining 4 — Bilal, Salman, Taran, and Sherlega — have been admitted to the district hospital.
Paying attention to the incident, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed officers involved to go to the hospital and be sure that all needed help was supplied to the victims and their households.
SP (north) Jitendra Srivastava said that the incident occurred at round 4:30pm when the employees have been soaking noodles close to the boiler. The explosion was so highly effective that the manufacturing facility’s partitions have been broken and the tin shed blew off.
The manufacturing facility is operated by one Himanshu Mani Tripathi, who’s absconding following the incident, officers stated, confirming that the victims are every day wage labourers employed on the manufacturing facility.