Halol: Four children under the age of five lost their lives when a wall of an abandoned factory collapsed onto their makeshift tents. The incident occurred in Halol taluka due to incessant heavy rains. Additionally, Five other individuals including two children have sustained injuries in the unfortunate incident.

The children who have lost their lives are Chiriram Damor (5), Abhishek Bhuriya (4), Gungun Bhuriya (2), and Muskan Bhuriya (5).

According to the police, the affected families had migrated from the Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh to work as labourers at a nearby construction site near the unused chemical factory in Chandrapura village, Halol taluka. These construction workers’ families had set up temporary tents next to the boundary wall of the factory.

According to Himanshu Solanki, the District Superintendent of Police, due to heavy rains, the factory wall collapsed on the tents of these labourers, resulting in the immediate death of these five children out of the total nine injured individuals.

The injured individuals, including two women and two children, were immediately taken to a hospital in Halol. One of the injured victims was later transferred to Vadodara for further medical treatment. DeshGujarat