GOTIBANDH (GAYA), Jan. 24 -- The entire Gotibandh village in Dumaria block of Gaya district was plunged into grief on Friday evening as the bodies of six labourers who lost their lives in an explosion at a steel plant in Chhattisgarh arrived simultaneously. A large crowd from surrounding villages also gathered to catch a glimpse of the deceased.

Deceased Badri Bhuiyan (42), Jitendra Bhuiyan (42), Shravan Kumar (22), Vinay Bhuiyan (40), Sundar Bhuiyan (40) and his son Rajdev Kumar (22) were among the 15 poor labourers of the hilly village who had gone to Chhattisgarh to earn livelihood and joined the hazardous work.

Most of the family members of the deceased said they had gone to work outside their village to pay off installments on loan...