{"id":303964,"date":"2018-10-10T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303964"},"modified":"2018-10-10T05:59:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:59:07","slug":"punjab-four-dead-as-fire-breaks-out-in-hosiery-factory-in-ludhiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-four-dead-as-fire-breaks-out-in-hosiery-factory-in-ludhiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab: Four dead as fire breaks out in hosiery factory in Ludhiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fire-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire-591x420.jpg 591w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fire.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four people died as a fire broke out at a hosiery factory in Ludhiana, Punjab on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fire broke out around 4am in the three-storey building of a factory in Kalyan Nagar, located in a densely-populated area of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the workers died of suffocation as they could not find the exit door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deceased were all labourers who were working in the factory at the time of incident, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The exact cause of the fire was not known yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around half a dozen fire fighting vehicles were pressed into service to put out the fire,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources say, it took three hours for fire fighters to douse the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people died as a fire broke out at a hosiery factory in Ludhiana, Punjab on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 4am in the three-storey building of a factory in Kalyan Nagar, located in a densely-populated area of the city. According to the reports, the workers died of suffocation as they could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[5494,5493,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303965,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303964\/revisions\/303965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}