Title - Metro mishap: Dead labourer’s family in shock, three battle for life - Mumbai - DNA

Twenty-five-year-old Parvesh Sahu is yet to come out of the shock that his brother Umesh Sahu, 32, is no more.

The labourer died on Tuesday when an extended foot over-bridge, which was to link an escalator to be set up at the airport road metro station, in Andheri, collapsed.

The brothers from Madhubani district in Bihar had come to Mumbai three months ago and were working for Hindustan Construction Company — the contractor for Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar metro railway project.

Umesh and his family had a long association with HCC. “Umesh’s father worked for HCC for eight years. Umesh and Parvesh followed their father’s footsteps. Umesh had worked for Bandra-Worli sea link project for 5 years,” said OP Singh, Umesh’s cousin. He and Parvesh were waiting outside Cooper Hospital’s morgue to take Umesh’s body.

The family said Parvesh was lucky as he was on the night shift. “Umesh and other labourers were putting plastic on the newly cemented slab which collapsed and he fell,” said Singh.

Both brothers, like other HCC labourers, were living in a room provided by the company in Bandra west.

Umesh’s post mortem report said he died of shock due to multiple injuries. “He had internal head injuries and multiple injuries in his entire body. He died because of shock,” said an official from the post mortem department of Cooper Hospital.

Umesh is survived by three children, wife and ailing parents. “He has two sons aged eight and three and a five-year-old daughter. His wife, Anita Devi, did not go to school. We are yet to tell her about Umesh’s death. They know that he was injured in the Metro accident,” said Singh.

Vichitra Mohanty, 20, is one of the 16 injured in the accident.
“He has injuries in his hip. Doctors say he is stable,” said Ganesh, his brother. They are from Orissa. Vichitra (20) had left studies and came to Mumbai three months ago to join Ganesh at construction site to work as mason. Both earned Rs8,000 each.

The labourers injured in the metro rail accident and admitted in Cooper hospital and Paramount general hospitals in Saki Naka are stable. Those who were critical were rushed to SevenHills hospital in Marol while others were taken to Paramount general hospital and Cooper Hospital.

"Of the six patients brought into Seven Hills Hospital, three are critical and the other three are stable. The patients were brought within the golden hour of life saving and thus their conditions have been salvaged," said Dr Sagar Galwankar, consultant, emergency medicine at Seven Hills hospital.