Kannauj railway station following a 16-hour overnight operation, officials said on Sunday. An FIR has been registered against the contractor and an engineer for various offences including negligence and endangering lives, they said.
The rescue teams, including personnel from the national and state disaster response forces and the railways, worked through the cold winter night to clear the debris and pull out the trapped workers.
No fatalities have been reported, the officials said. Twenty-six workers have been admitted to various hospitals in Kannauj, while two with serious injuries were shifted to the Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) Hospital in Kanpur, they said.
The workers at the LLR Hospital are out of danger, hospital sources said. One of them has a head injury while the other sustained a leg injury, they said.
A complaint was filed by Vipul Mathur, Executive Engineer of the Railway Gati Shakti Directorate, at Farrukhabad Government Railway Police (GRP) station against the contractor and the engineer after the collapse of shuttering during the construction of a waiting room at the Kannauj railway station left the workers trapped.
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