NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, DEC 14
The bodies of 20 Indian workers who were killed in the fire accident that took place at a ceramic tiles factory in Sudan a few days ago will be flown back to India soon, according to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
This was confirmed by the ministry officials in a mail sent to the VCK MP D. Ravikumar. The officials said that the bodies of the 15 bodies of Indian workers were identified by the Indian Mission in Sudan and arrangements are being made to repatriate in the next available flight.
The mission said five bodies could not be identified. Five workers went missing after the fire accident. The mission, which arranged for DNA profiling of the unidentified bodies, will transport them along with the DNA profiles.
It has directed the state governments concerned to go for DNA profiling and match the five unidentified bodies.
Fifteen Indian workers – three each from Haryana (Billu Ram, Pawan Kumar and Pradeep), Rajasthan (Ravindra Kumar Maan, Kailash Kajla and Jaideep), Bihar (Nitish Mishra, Niraj Kumar Singh and Amit Kumar Tiwari) and Uttar Pradesh (Mohit Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Verma and Hari Nath Rajbhar), two from Tamil Nadu (Jayakumar Selvaraju and Ramakrishnan Ramalingam) and one from Puducherry (Venkatchelam Chidambaram) were killed in the fire accident at ‘Ceramica Seela,’ a ceramic tile manufacturing unit at Khartoum in Sudan on December 3.
Five Indian workers – one each from Bihar (Ram Kumar Singh), Uttar Pradesh (Jishan), Tamil Nadu (Raja Sekhar), New Delhi (Intezar Khan) and Gujarat (Bahadurbhai Somabhai Pagi) went missing after the fire.
The mission arranged for the safe return of five injured workers to India (Mohamed Saleem Ahamed, Vinothkumar Munusamy, Poobalan Balu, Sonu Prasad and Surendra Kumar). They left Sudan on Thursday morning and will land in New Delhi on Saturday.
