Bodies of all four victims of the Sultanpuri fire will be taken to their native place at Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh
Sham Baris, 20, one of the survivors of the Sultanpuri fire that killed four people has not recovered from the shock after losing two younger brothers. The three brothers from the same family came to Delhi from the Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh two years ago and had been working in the shoe factory in a residential area in West Delhi's Sultanpuri ever since.
Early on Monday morning, Baris woke up all choked to the smoke, possibly from a short circuit at the ground floor of the four-storey building, where the fire had broken out in the shoe factory. Sleeping in a room with four others on the second floor, he looked out of the window and with the help of others, who had already jumped to the next terrace, he escaped at 6:30 am, realising minutes later that his brothers - Mahabub Baris, 16, and Ayub, 14, were still inside.
"I woke up to smoke coming from downstairs. Since it was a shoe factory, there was a lot of leather and solution (used to pasted leather) on the ground floor causing harmful smoke which choked us," said Baris, eldest of seven siblings.
In between waiting for the bodies to be released from the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital's mortuary after the post-mortem examination and giving statements to the police, Baris has not got a moment's time to come to terms with what has happened. Talking to his paralysed father over the phone, he shares the details in brief and that he will be home with the bodies on Tuesday.
Similarly, Mohammad Hussain, the eldest of the two brothers working at the factory, losing his 14-year-old brother, Shan Mohammad, has been hit hard. He has not been talking much since he was shown the body of his brother. Sleeping on the third floor, Hussain was pulled out by others, but his younger brother on a floor below could not receive any help.
"The bodies came in an ambulance and were announced brought dead. The four labourers died of choking on smoke and harmful gases. All the bodies had black tattooing scars caused due to fire," said Dr Rohit Kumar Pal, Chief Medical Officer, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
Razi Mohammad, 20, was the fourth victim and the only adult among the four. His elder brother, Ali Mohammad, does not know how to tell their widowed mother of the death of her son.
On Tuesday, Hardoi will cry for the four young lives that were gone too soon, when the three young men will take the bodies of their younger brothers after their release from the hospital.
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