Bhubaneswar: The toll in Hi-Tech Hospital, Bhubaneswar, AC Compressor explosion rose to three on Saturday following the death of the victim, who claimed to be Dilip Samantaray after being taken off ventilator, leading to an identity ‘mix-up’.He died around 3-3.30 am, hospital sources said.
The case pertains to a fire mishap on December 29 evening in which Dilip Samantaray along with Simanchal Biswal, Sritam Sahu and Jyoti Ranjan Mallik, of Jagannath Refrigeration agency, were critically injured while repairing the AC compressor kept on the roof of the private medical college-cum-hospital here. The following day, one among them succumbed and the hospital authorities identified him as Dilip Samantaray, a native of Harirajpur in Jatni. Unable to bear the shock of her husband’s death, Soumyashri Jena reportedly died by suicide at her parent’s house on December 31, last year.
However, four days after being declared dead and cremated by his family members, the man was found alive as the injured initially identified as Jyotiranjan Mallik, regained consciousness on the ventilator and identified himself as Dilip.
