India, June 27 -- The brother of one of the three workers who died after allegedly inhaling toxic gas inside a tank in a Delhi factory on Saturday blamed negligence and lack of safety equipment as the reason for the tragedy.

The Delhi Fire Service received an emergency call from the factory at 12.03 pm, saying three people were trapped in a tank. The men allegedly died within minutes of entering the tank, according to an earlier HT report. The first crews reached the sometime around 12:40-12:45 pm.

The three men, identified as Arun Singh, 38, Sandeep Paleram, 32, and Chand, 42, had stepped inside the septic tank at a factory in outer Delhi's Mundka area to clean it.

Arun's elder brother Narendra recounted how the sequence of events too...