15 injured in Karachi bakery fire mishap, CM for better treatment to affected

HYDERABAD: As many as 15 workers mostly from Uttar Pradesh received burn injuries in a fire accident at the Karachi Bakery’s manufacturing unit located at Gaganpahad in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Eight of the injured have been shifted to DRDO Hospital at Santosh Nagar for better treatment.

According to police, the fire erupted due to a gas leak in the pipeline triggered by the overheating of the oven used in baking the food items. The police received a call from the baking unit at around 10.44 am. They rushed a fire tender to the spot by that time the fire subsided.

Later police filed an FIR in which they said that the accident occurred due to negligence of the Karachi bakery owners. “This incident occurred due to the negligence of the owners of the Karachi Bakery. They did not take any precautionary measures about the gas pipelines and there were no emergency fire exits for the workers to escape.

The Injured are:

1. Balram aged 25 yrs

2. Shubam Prajapathi aged 19 yrs

3. Adithya kumar aged 19 yrs

4. Sandeep Prajapathi aged 27 yrs

5. Dipak Shukla aged 18 yrs

6. Amresh Kumar aged 20 yrs

7. Mukesh Kumar aged 28 yrs

8. Dhara Singh aged 37 yrs

9. Sonu aged 30 yrs

10. Kamal Kishor aged 24 yrs

11. Pramod Kumar aged 19 yrs,

12. Sandeep Kumar aged 35 yrs

13. Sunny aged 20 yrs

14. Pradeep aged 27 yrs

15. Sujith aged 19 yrs

(all are residents of Gaganpahad of Uttar Pradesh)

Meanwhile, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy expressed shock over the fire mishap at the Karachi Bakery manufacturing unit. He urged the principal secretary of health to provide all necessary help to the workers and ensure the best treatment for the injured.