Blind woman, her husband rescue a dozen victims

With the help of a staircase, the affected persons were rescued through the small window. The brave woman Meena, who cannot see with her eyes, heard noises coming from the adjacent building. "My wife told me that she heard someone crying in the nearby building. It was around 6 am and we were sleeping. I went to the roof and saw smoke inside the building," said Dharmender, Meena's husband. Without wasting much time, the blind woman alerted everyone who lived on different floors of the house.

Dharmender further added that he saw labourers on the third floor of the building shouting for help through a window. An elderly woman Jyoti joined the rescue efforts and both of them took out a wooden staircase and attached it to the building's window. "The laborers with the help of staircase came out of the window and crawled down the staircase," said Dharmender. Some of them were hanging from the building. They were pulled inside other houses.

Another rescuer Jyoti stated that it was tough for them to breathe as the smoke had entered the house. "It was the first time we witnessed such an incident. Around 15-20 labourers were rescued by us," said Jyoti.

The residents claimed that they did not have much knowledge about the building and the labourers used to remain inside the building. They had hardly seen them standing near the window. "During fire, the window of the building was broken and for the first time we saw some part of building," said the residents.