In a tragic incident, a 22-year-old labourer died after his head was crushed by a lift in Shahdara’s Seemapuri area. The incident occurred on Saturday.
The deceased has been identified as Puneet Kumar, a resident of Sahibabad in Uttar Pradesh.
According to a senior police official, the incident took place on Saturday at around 6 pm when Kumar was loading the goods.
“The lift, through which he was taking the material from first floor to the ground floor, automatically started and his head got crushed. Kumar was from Bihar and from last two to three months, he was working in the factory located at Jhilmil industrial area.
The factory manufactures taps,” said the senior police official.
The other labourers alleged that they have asked the owner to repair the lift many times but nothing had happened.
