"It is like a video continuously playing in my heꦐad and I can still hear screams of people begging for help," says 45-year-old Mamta, one of the survivors of the Mundka fire tragedy.
H🌱owever, she has no time to grieve as another pressing worry on her mind is to feed her family of nine who are entirely depen♍dent on her.
Mamta suffered burns on her hands and injuries on her foot and has been asked to ꩲtake rest until recovery.
Last Friday, a massive fire engulfed the four-story building where Mamta had been working for years. Many of her co-workers died or are unaccounted for till now.🌸
At least, 27 people, including 21 women, died 🔥in the blaze that started on the first floor of building.
&quo𝓀t;It is like a video contin🅷uously playing in my head. I still hear screams and people begging for help. I could still feel that smoke. My friend Geeta was standing there, but she couldn't move.
"We asked her to take the rope and come down. But she could not. I don't know what happened to her. I cannot forget what happened that day," Mamta, a resident of Parvesh Nagar, sꦕituated in west Delhi's Mubarakpur near Mundka.
However, her major concern is feeding her♉ h🏅ungry kids.
"My husband is handicapped. I have seven kids, including five daughters. My sons work as ඣwell as study.♌ They are daily wagers and most of the time are without work.
"I was the only stable earning member of the fami💫ly. Now I am sitting at home without work. How will I feed my f🔴amily?" rued Mamta, who worked in the CCTV cameras and router manufacturing company in the building.
Many of those who worked at the company are from Parvesh Nagar and every alternative house in the area is somehow affected by the t𒁃ragedy in one or the other way.
"N🔯obody is talking about the incident. Everybody is affected. All of them are poor people witಌh a single earning member," she said.
Malti, another Parvesh nagar resident and a survivor, said it is difficult to find othe✃r work here.
"Not many factories are here. We don't have much savings. We were managing with much difficulty and now this tragedy has ad♛ded another stress on us," Malti said.
Sꦑhe also suffered minor injuries in the incident and has been ♛on painkillers.
"I kn🅠ow it is difficult for them whose loved ones have died. And it is difficult for us as well. I used to earn a little less than 10,000 from the factory but I dont ꧑know how will we manage now," said Malti.
Some are even scared to send their family🌊 members to other factories 𝔉in the area for work.
Srishti (name changed🍒), whose mother was one of the survivor, is concerned abo꧂ut the future of her family.
"My mother use🎃d to work at the factory. She was lucky that day but what if she is not ne💧xt time. What will we do? I cannot lose my mother.
"In this area, every oth𝄹er factor♊y is like that. It is an incident in waiting. If she will go to work I will be a concerned the whole day," 15-year-old Sristi said.
(With PTI inputs)
