At least eight bank employees and few customers fainted after a toxic gas leaked from a generator installed at Jharkhand State Gramin bank at Udnabad in Giridih district here on Friday.
Over ten employees including branch manager and dozen costomers were present in the basement of the State Gramin bank in densely-populated locality of Udnabad when the incident took place on Friday morning.
“Employees of the Gramin bank at Udnabad branch were busy in their official work, when smoke emitting from a power generator entered the basement. Some eight staffs including branch manager, Ashok Kumar, second officer Prameshwar Barnawal and few costomers got unconscious while the remaining managed to leave the place," a customer who was outside the bank said.
The fainted staffs and customers were shifted to the Sadar hospital, Giridih where the doctors described their condition as out of danger.