HARIPUR: Two of the 16 factory workers who suffered severe burn injuries in a steel factory of Hattar Economic Zone died on Thursday, police said.

The workers suffered burns when molten steel fell on them as rope of the bucket carrying boiling liquid broke. The injured were shifted to Wah Cantonment Hospital where two of the six critically injured workers succumbed to burn injuries. The two were identified as Jehangir, a resident of Hafizabad, and Naeem Abbas of Bhawalnagar.

Police and hospital sources said that three workers were still in the burns unit of the hospital and their condition was also critical, while the other 10 injured who suffered 40 to 50 per cent burns had been shifted to Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, on the request of their families as they all belonged to interior Punjab.

Meanwhile, the police arrested the factory`s general manager Jamshed Khan and the court of judicial magistrate later sent him to Haripur jail on judicial remand. After the death of two workers the police have added Section 322 PPC in the FIR against the factory management.

Labour director, Haripur, Faizullah Khan sealed the factory for lacking occupational safety arrangements for the workers, while the deputy commissioner has ordered an inquiry into the incident.