At least three people killed and other sustained injuries when a fire broke out in a yarn factory in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The incident took place around 12.30 a.m. reportedly due to a technical problem in a machine and was controlled. It took several hours to douse the flame.
Around 20 people were in the factory at the time of incident. Fire fighters had tough time while evacuating people trapped inside the building.
“Since Tuesday evening there was a technical problem in the machine on which they make cotton from raw material for manufacturing yarn. They had asked the owner, Sunil Jain, to get it repaired,” informed a factory worker to a leading English Daily.
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He added that the motor of the machine was running even after it was switched off and the owner assured that a mechanic would come on Wednesday and repair it. But due to short-circuit, the machine caught fire, which wrapped the entire building.
