Four died due to suffocation in fire incident

LUDHIANA: In a major fire incident in a hosiery located in Kalyan Nagar four people got suffocated to death on Wednesday morning. These were working in factory as labourers and were on night shift when incident took place. The fire officials claimed when they reached third floor of factory after dousing fire from lower floors of factory these were lying there in unconscious state.
The fire call was made at 4.25am and fire brigade rushed to spot. The fire officials were controlling the fire and entered the building after dousing flames from ground, first and second floors. The bodiea were sent to civil hospital and these were yet to identified. The fire had come under control.

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