Kanpur: Two employees burned alive after a fire broke out due to leaks in the LPG cylinder in the candy workshop in the Kahukothi area below the collectanj police station on Friday night.
The fire broke at 2.30 in the morning and spread immediately because of the flammable material including sweet boxes, sugar, oil and ‘ghee’ etc.
In the stairs part of the three-story building, where sweet workshops are located.
Fire fighting personnel brought fire under control with the help of several tenders of fire after a struggle of about six hours.
The Sweets Workshop belongs to Swaroop Nagar Resident Banwari Lal Gupta.
There is panic and chaos around after the fire.
When the fire was watered, the sweet workshop was reduced to ashes.
Property and goods worth several lakh were revoked because of a fire in the sweet workshop.
Ramesh Chandra firefighters said that the fire broke out in the candy workshop in the Kahukothi area located on Jalan Shiva in the city of Friday night.
Within minutes the fire swallowed most of the sweet workshops, maybe because leaks were followed by the LPG gas cylinder explosion in a sweet shop.
According to DCP East Pramod Kumar, Fire breaks in the Raj Sweet House workshop on the ground floor in a three-story building located in Kahu Kothi.
Workers who work in sweet homes at the factory stay at night.
On Friday night, 8-10 workers were sleeping in the workshop themselves.
Then the fire broke around 2:30 a.m.
“Shyamnath Kashyap (22), a resident of Hardoi, Sunny Prajapati (23), a resident of Basti, died in the accident, while Mohit, a resident of Chake, suffered serious burns.
He had been treated at the Lajpat Rai Hospital.
Both the corpse has been sent to the corpse for post-mortem, “said DCP further.