Kolkata warehouse collapse: Three minors from Bihar and Bengal, among the dead
Kolkata under-construction warehouse collapse: Amid death and despair, kin of workers search for the livingEarlier, they used to work at a different construction site in Odisha. Rajendra and Manichand moved to this new location in Taratala a month ago, while Mannu, Ghee Kumar, and Shahid arrived here only 13 days ago. Their family members said that they each used to make only ₹400 to ₹500 daily.Mannu’s wife, Priyanka Kumari, said that he and Ghee Kumar called her only 45 minutes before the accident.
- ▪Kolkata under-construction warehouse collapse: Amid death and despair, kin of workers search for the livingEarlier, they used to work at a different construction site in Odisha.
- ▪Rajendra and Manichand moved to this new location in Taratala a month ago, while Mannu, Ghee Kumar, and Shahid arrived here only 13 days ago.
- ▪Their family members said that they each used to make only ₹400 to ₹500 daily.Mannu’s wife, Priyanka Kumari, said that he and Ghee Kumar called her only 45 minutes before the accident.
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At least three minors, including one from Bihar and two from West Bengal, several poor daily wage labourers, and the proprietor of the construction farm that was given the tender for the ill-fated warehouse in Kolkata’s Taratala, are among the 11 deceased who were killed in the tragic accident on Wednesday (June 24, 2026).The 17-year-old Ghee Kumar from Lagma village under Hemjapur police station in Bihar’s Munger quit his school after class XI and arrived in Kolkata’s Taratala around around a month ago with his four brothers Mannu Kumar (19), Manichand Kumar (24), Shahid Kumar (20), Shivchand Kumar (21) and father Rajendra Kumar (50) to work as a construction labourer in the warehouse that crashed down.Ghee Kumar was found dead in the accident, while Shivchand could not yet be traced by…
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