One worker was killed when a major fire broke out at a spinning mill in Focal Point Phase V area in Ludhiana on early Sunday morning.
The officials said that the fire broke out around 1 am on the first floor of a godown at the mill. The worker was sleeping inside the godown and was asphyxiated to death. He was identified as 48-year-old Banwari Lal, a native of Uttar Pardesh. The owner claimed that he was not aware that the worker was sleeping inside the godown. Since the factory had no fire safety arrangements, the firemen took around five hours to douse the flame and did not let the fire to spread to the hosiery unit where the machinery worth crores was lying.