Factory owner, son die while rescuing worker from pickle factory well in Delhi
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Police said the factory had four to five wells, each about 10 feet deep, used in the pickle-making process. On Friday, a labourer reportedly entered one of the wells and became unconscious due to suffocation. In an attempt to rescue him, the factory owner Anil and his two sons, Neeraj, 32, and Sandeep, 28, climbed down into the well. However, they too lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen.
A 60-year-old factory owner and his son died after suffocating inside a pickle-processing well at a factory in west Delhi’s Nangloi, police said on Saturday.
According to officials from Delhi Police, a PCR call was received on Friday evening reporting that two or three people had fallen into a well at a pickle-making unit at Rao Vihar in Nangloi.
When police from Nangloi Police Station reached the spot, they found that the ground floor of the house housed a pickle-making factory owned by Anil, 60, who lived on the first floor with his family.
Police said the factory had four to five wells, each about 10 feet deep, used in the pickle-making process. On Friday, a labourer reportedly entered one of the wells and became unconscious due to suffocation.
In an attempt to rescue him, the factory owner Anil and his two sons, Neeraj, 32, and Sandeep, 28, climbed down into the well. However, they too lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen, police said.
The four men were eventually pulled out by the owner’s brother Subhash and local residents.
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