Jalandhar: The untiring efforts of rescue teams engaged in finding survivors beneath the collapsed blanket manufacturing factory in this Punjab city saw more success early Thursday with a trapped worker being rescued after 72 hours under the debris.
Nitish Kumar, a migrant worker from Bihar, walked out to claps around 1 a.m. Thursday, surprising even his brother and other friends waiting outside the collapsed structure of Shital Fibres here.
As Nitish was taken away by the rescue teams and paramedics to hospital for treatment, his brother, Mithilesh Kumar, said they had lost all hope of seeing him again. “We are so happy to see him alive. We had almost given up all hopes,” Mithilesh said as tears rolled down his eyes.
The four-storey factory building had collapsed late Sunday and rescue teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Punjab Police, other agencies and private volunteers, have been working non-stop since then. (IANS)