VADODARA: Two workers of a chemical company at Nandesari GIDC were found dead under suspicious circumstances at the company’s plant in the early hours of Sunday. Police suspect that the two — Bhavesh Shah (45) and 24-year-old Alpesh Padhiyar — may have died due to gas leakage.
When the incident happened around 14 workers were present in the factory, a police official said. Apart from the two victims no one else suffered any medical complications due the suspected gas leakage, he added.
Police said that Shah and Padhiyar were found unconscious around 3.18 am in the plant located at GIDC estate in Nandesari. The two workers were taken to a private hospital in Chhani, but the doctors declared them dead before admission.
“We are waiting for the postmortem report to know the exact cause of death. But it is suspected that they may have inhaled some poisonous gas that leaked accidentally,” said a police official. Later, during the day, scientific experts too visited the plant and carried out inspection to zero in on the cause of deaths.
A case of accidental death has been registered at the Nandesari police station. “We are investigating it as accidental deaths. Around a dozen other workers were also working in the plant during the same time. We will also question them as apart from the two deceased no one else had complained of health problems,” a police official said.
Initial probe revealed that Shah, a resident of Nandesari, was working at the company as a plant operator for the last three years. Padhiyar, who lives at Anklav in neighbouring Anand district, had joined the company around a fortnight ago as a contractual worker.
