SDRF team and police personnel trying to remove the bodies of mother and daughter during the rescue operation.
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Bodies of mother and daughter found on one side of the house. Tried to escape near the bike. There was a firecracker explosion in Islampura.
Morena, Naidunia representative. The body of the mother and daughter has been taken out after an 18-hour rescue operation in the houses that were collapsed due to the explosion in the firecracker warehouse in Islampura, Morena. The bodies of both were found near the bike. Due to which it seems that the mother and daughter might have tried to escape by taking cover of the bike.
However, after the rescue operation till Saturday night, when nothing was found in the debris, it was feared that the mother and daughter might have hidden somewhere. Four houses had collapsed due to the explosion in a firecracker warehouse in Islampura area of Morena. One of these houses also belonged to Jamil Khan.
Mother and daughter were buried under the debris
Jamil Khan’s wife Anju Begum and 16-year-old daughter Saina were also buried under the debris. After the explosion, a rescue operation was started from 1 pm on Saturday to rescue the mother and daughter from the debris. But by late night the debris was turned upside down and excavation was done up to three feet below the ground. But mother and daughter did not meet.
Due to this, it was feared that the mother and daughter were hiding somewhere. Nevertheless, SDRF continued the rescue operation throughout the night. The mother’s body was first found at around 7.15 am on Sunday morning, between the wall and the bike on one side of the house. After this, when more debris was removed, the daughter’s body was also found. The bodies could be retrieved after about 18 hours of rescue operation.
Tried to avoid the bike!
The way the bodies of both the mother and daughter were found between the wall and the bike. It seems that during the blast, both of them tried to escape by sitting between the wall and the bike to avoid the bricks and stones falling from the roof. For this reason their bodies were found between the bike and the wall. This was the reason that even after turning the debris till late night, both of them were not found.