Two Shabor kids charred to death in a temporary tent when parents busy in harvesting in Bankura

Two Shabor kids charred to death in a temporary tent when parents busy in harvesting in Bankura

Hummingbird News Desk

BURDWAN, 7 DEC: In a tragic incident, two daughters of a migrant Shabor labourer couple were charred to death after a temporary hut made of haystacks and straws caught fire when their parents were busy in paddy harvesting at a village in Bankura this morning.

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Charred remains of the kids were recovered by the police from the ashes with the help of the same flock of the migrant labourers those have come to help mass harvesting at Narrah village within the Indas Police Station limits from neighbouring Jhargram district. The body remains were dispatched to the Bishnupur Sub Divisional Hospital for autopsy.

Dhananjoy Shabar of Makorbhola village in Belpahari PS area of Jhargram, like every year arrived Indas with his family to serve as farmland labourers. Dhananjoy accompanied four other Shabor families. The families camped at an abandoned farmland of Shah Alam Sheikh of Narrah village. “Since 20 years they have been serving the local cultivators as wage labourers during the harvesting seasons. This year they erected huts on my land,” Shah said.

When the male and female members left the camp to resume work for the day, the kids, as usual were left inside the huts. Dhananjoy’s daughters – one year old Purnima and Susmita of 3 years also were inside their hut. “The straw-structured hut somehow caught fire and was completely gutted with minutes and the kids trapped inside the inferno had a miserable death, unfortunately,” said Qutubuddin Khan, SDPO, Bishnupur. The mishap occurred at around 10 am today when the camp had no adult member to supervise. The SDPO accompanied by the other officials rushed to the spot shortly after the incident.

The police though have initiated a probe but the officials believed that the incident was just accidental. The officials said that the family had installed a brick-structured oven inside the hut from where a sparkling might have caused the ‘tragic’ fire incident.

Tags: #Shabor #TribalKids #CharredToDeath #Indas #Haystacks #MigratoryLabourer

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