A pall of gloom descended over a small location Mirzapur in Palamu district’s Hussainabad when five labourers of the district died in UP after a roof collapse incident on Saturday night. The tragedy occurred at Chandouli in UP said DSP Hussainabad N Khan. “The villagers are waiting for the bodies to come which is expected by Sunday evening,” Khan said.
The five were killed along with nine other labourers hailing from UP. These nine labourers were also under the same roof that came down mid night said sources. Among the 14 killed were seven women. One of the seven women was from Hussainabad. And six women were of UP. All the 14 were related to each other said sources.
Hussainabad Bahujan Samaj Party MlA Kushwaha Sheopujan Mehta who was in lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday speaking to The Pioneer said, “Poverty and lack of work drove these poor of Palamu out of their place for bread and this is a great slur on the Government of Jharkhand which has miserably failed the perennial menace of migration of poor work force from Palamu to other places in the country’. The BSP MlA did not stop here but went on to say, “Had there been work opportunities here these daily wagers would not have gone there to UP’.
The BSP MlA gave out the names of five from Palamu who died in the incident as Kallu, Zishan, Qazim, Qaiser and Abiya Bibi. Abiya Bibi was brought to a hospital in UP where she succumbed to injuries. The 9 other killed are identified as Saidia Bibi, Qamruddin Hassan, Ramzan Hassan, Hasan Abbas, Husna Bibi, Sakina Bibi, Jainab Bibi, Ummey laila and Chanda Bibi As the labourers were of Jharkhand but died in other State UP the bereaved families expect ex gratia relief from both the States said sources.
The lone BSP MlA of Palamu’s Hussainabad said, “I have told my party bosses in UP about this death of the poor of Palamu. I will take up this matter here in Jharkhand for the fiscal relief to the bereaved families and I want relief to all the 14 killed.’