Hyderabad: For Yeshwanth Kumar, those moments after he suddenly felt the air around him get “heavy”, are yet to sink in. Most of it is still a blur as all he recalls is getting up and running for his life, when the building came crashing down.“All of a sudden, I felt a blast of high-pressure air around me. I ducked behind a forklift parked near where I was standing. I escaped only because of that. Soon, the building collapsed. I just got up and ran. I didn’t think twice, I just wanted to survive,” said Kumar, who had been working at the factory as a store supervisor for the past six months. The 32-year-old, whose wedding is scheduled for October this year, escaped with minor injuries. “The ride to the hospital was terrifying. Almost everyone was unconscious,” he told TOI.Like him, other survivors of the explosion are in a state of shock. They have a hazy recollection of the sequence of events.“I was near a pillar when I suddenly saw the wall near the stairs collapsing,” said 38-year-old Sanjay Mukhiya from Bihar. “I ran down a broken staircase and got out. If I had stayed inside for even a few more seconds, I wouldn't have survived,” said the operator, adding that he still hasn’t been able to contact his friends from the factory and is hoping they are all alive.Ganesh Kumar, who is being treated at a hospital in Madinaguda, said he was on the ground floor when the blast occurred. “My shirt caught fire. I ripped it off and ran. Seconds after I came out, the building collapsed,” he said when TOI caught up with him at the Pranaam Hospital in Madinaguda.Durga Prasad, another survivor who was at the blast site, said that there were around 63 workers on duty. “I was in a small chamber near the machinery with one staff member. Only the two of us from the production team survived. A wall collapsed due to the pressure, and that’s how we escaped, through a ladder attached by the maintenance personnel. Otherwise we would’ve been trapped too. But others, including our training supervisor, the plant in-charge, and even the DGM, were stuck inside. I’ve been working here for six months. It is devastating,” he said.