Disasters · Sitapura factory fireSitapura factory fire: Two workers dead, four critical in Jaipur police accountAired October 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM UTCWritten October 22, 2026 at 6:46 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07Smoke killed two workers inside a gold jewelry factory.0:11Police say four colleagues were admitted to hospital in critical condition.0:15Investigators still have to determine what started the fire and what happened as0:19workers tried to escape.0:20The fire struck Jaipur's Siddhapura industrial area on Thursday evening.0:24Teams from Sanganar Siddhar Police Station and the fire department went to the0:29factory and began fighting the blaze.0:31The fire was later reported under control.0:33The fire happened on October 22nd.0:36Ideal Fiscal Services disclosed an incident at its manufacturing unit.0:40The immediate human cost reaches beyond Jaipur to workers' families in Uttar0:44Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and West Bengal.0:47Police identify the dead as Rajneesh 19 from Chandali in Uttar Pradesh and Saraswati0:5345 from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh.0:55Both were migrant workers, their families were informed and their bodies went to the0:58hospital mortuary pending post-mortem examinations.1:01Police also named the four injured workers.1:03Ajay Paul 26 is from Berili in Uttar Pradesh.1:07Lalmohan 52 is from West Bengal.1:10Sandeep Singh 19 and Babul 32 are both from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh.1:14Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Lalit Sharma said the four were receiving1:18treatment at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital.1:20The critical patient count ranges from four to five in competing accounts.1:24Police named four critical admissions.1:26The higher figure hasn't been confirmed as an official update, and a later hospital1:30bulletin hasn't clarified how the patients are doing.1:33Other workers were described as unconscious, hospitalized, or seriously injured.1:37Each term tells us something different about their condition.1:40Those figures can't simply replace the police count of critical patients or be added1:44to it.1:45The four critical admissions remain the latest police-attributed figure.1:48Workers were reportedly trapped after smoke spread and sensor-controlled locks1:52activated.1:53Rescuers broke a wall to extract people.1:56Investigators still have to explain how the escape routes and locking systems worked2:00and whether they contributed to the deaths.2:02Police say the two workers died from suffocation as fire and smoke spread.2:06The rescue details put what happened inside the building at the heart of the2:09investigation alongside the search for the ignition source.2:13Police initially suspected a gas cylinder explosion.2:16A competing preliminary explanation points to sparks from an electric furnace.2:20Another describes an explosion in a furnace used to melt gold.2:23Investigators haven't determined which explanation is right.2:26Nothing yet connects those possible causes into one proven sequence.2:30A technical investigation must determine where the fire began and how it spread.2:34A hospital clarification is also needed to settle how many workers remain critical.2:38Sharma says a detailed investigation is underway to determine the cause.2:43Police plan to release the two workers' remains to their relatives after post-mortem2:47examinations.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗