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Singh is yet to come to terms with the loss of his two cousins and younger brother to the same fire
Struggling in a hospital after escaping the jaws of the fire, Roop Prakash Singh is a broken man. While the 24-year-old managed to save his life by jumping from the ill-fated three-storey building, he has no clue how he will fend for his old parents back in Unnao in UP. Singh is yet to come to terms with the loss of his two cousins and younger brother to the same fire.
Speaking to DNA from the hospital bed with a fractured leg, Singh says he doesn't know whether to be happy for his survival or to mourn the death of his 3 family members.
Recalling the horror, Singh said that 50 people worked inside the cracker warehouse. The incident could have consumed more lives but fortunately around 20 people had left on Saturday evening.
"Usually all people do overtime but on Saturday evening, around 5:30 pm some people left the factory. The mishap happened at around 5:55 pm. I was on the second floor and was heading down to the basement of the building for some work. All of a sudden, I heard loud cries. When I reached the first floor, I realised that a fire had broken out in the basement and ground floor. My three brothers - Rohint Singh, Sanjit Singh and Suraj Bihari - were working in the basement. I thought about alerting them. As I reached the ground floor, I saw the fire spreading massively. Instead of alerting my brothers, I ran upstairs to save my life," Singh adds.
Singh tried to look for an emergency exit but soon realised that he was trapped. "Then I went to the third floor and broke the glass window, and jumped out. I broke my leg in the process," says Singh.
His 19-year old brother, Rohint Singh had just joined him last month for work trying to escape the tattered life of poverty. Now, he is no more and his dreams have become Singh's nightmares.
Officials at the Maharishi Valmiki Hospital said that Singh was brought to the hospital at around 7 pm. While the other survival, Sunita (45) who also had jumped to save her life was brought at around 11:30 pm. Sunita has a hip fracture and was referred to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital on Sunday morning.
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