2 dead, 4 injured in fire at Saki Naka scrap godown
The blaze spread across 4,000 square feet, injured four people and damaged 60 to 70 commercial units and chawls, officials said.
- On Tuesday evening, a major fire at a scrap warehouse in the Sakinaka area of Mumbai's Andheri killed two people and left four others with burn injuries; the blaze at Abdul Rashid Compound on Khairani Road was extinguished after six hours.
- Spreading across 4,000 square feet, the level-II fire destroyed 60 to 70 commercial units and residential chawls, consuming items including LPG cylinders, machinery, plastic granules, and aerosol containers stored at the site.
- Admitted to the trauma ward at the civic-run Rajawadi Hospital, four burn victims, including a 20-year-old, suffered injuries ranging from 10 per cent to 80 per cent.
- On the day of Dussehra, this incident was the third fire reported across the metropolis; earlier, a fire in a 13-storey Kurla building injured nine people, while another erupted at the Amarsons store on Bhulabhai Desai Road.
- Fire brigade officials have not yet disclosed the cause of the Sakinaka blaze; with this incident, the total number of people injured in two of the three fires reported on Tuesday has reached 13.
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Two charred bodies recovered after fire at scrap godown in Mumbai
Mumbai, Oct 21 (PTI) Two persons were charred to death, and four others suffered burn injuries in a fire at a godown storing scrap material at Sakinaka in Mumbai’s Andheri area, civic officials said on Wednesday. The blaze was reported at 6.18 pm on Tuesday at Abdul Rashid Compound on Khairani Road in Sakinaka and […]
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Two killed in fire at scrap godown in Mumbai's Andheri
Digital Desk | Mumbai, Oct 21 (IANS) Two people died, and four others sustained burn injuries, including one who suffered 80 per cent burns, after a fire broke out at a scrap godown in Abdul Rashid Compound in Saki Naka, Andheri East, Mumbai, officials said on Wednesday. The Mumbai Fire Brigade received a call about the blaze at 6.18 p.m. on Tuesday and classified it as a Level-II fire shortly after responding to the incident. The injured wer…
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