They lived in the area for months. They bought groceries, snacks, smokes, and fruits and paid in cash. But hours after the 11 men were incinerated in a pre-dawn blaze, the shopkeepers and residents of Bhoiguda-Veterinary Hospital road had no clue about the names of the workers who died.
“I saw them yesterday evening. They were good boys. They would come in the evening and pick up stuff here. They would buy rice from the neighbouring shop,” said Susey Anthony, who has a shop selling items of daily needs.
The street is lined with lumber depots, waste wood shops, furniture stores and houses of the businessmen. The young men lived and worked in the scrap yard stripping wire, sorting glass bottles, tin caps and extracting metal from waste.
