By Aroonim Bhuyan, IANS
Dubai : The families of the seven Indian workers who were killed in last week’s accident at a bridge construction site here will get 20 years’ salary — double the compensation announced earlier.
The Wade Adams Contracting Company Monday announced that the next of kin of each of the deceased would get 20 years’ salary as compensation instead of 10 years as announced earlier.
“Our company has decided to give 20 years’ salary — their lifetime salary — to their (the workers’) families. We don’t want them to suffer,” N.M. Naushad, human resources director of Wade Adams, told IANS.
He said that, as an interim measure, the company has decided to give 20,000 dirhams ($5,400) to the next of kin of each of those killed.
“We have given the cheque to the Indian mission (in Dubai). This will serve as immediate relief for the families before the full compensation amount reaches them,” Naushad said.
The seven workers were killed when a crane hit the bridge under construction on Sufooh Road, near Jumeirah Marina Mall here around 6.20 p.m. Thursday, causing a wall to collapse. Authorities attributed the incident to human error.
Nineteen others were injured in the incident.
Those who died have been identified as Arumugham, Karthipan Thangam, Shahajan Shamsuddin, Arun Muezhi Govindan, Mathai Lagan (all from Tamil Nadu), C. Jagadish (from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh) and Surendra Singh (from Patna, Bihar).
Meanwhile, Wade Adams has decided to post bail for its three employees — an engineer, a crane operator and a crane usher — all Indians, who were detained by the Dubai Police following the incident.
The company has also decided to appoint a lawyer for the trio.