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Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) A fire broke out at a cluster of shanties near Eco Park in the New Town area near Kolkata on Wednesday evening. Six fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames, while four more were on the way, officials said. There was no report of any casualty or injury in the blaze, which broke out in one of the shanties and quickly spread to adjoining areas around 7.15 pm. The area was cordoned off, and vehicular movement was diverted as local residents and fire servic ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) A fire broke out at a cluster of shanties near Eco Park in the New Town area near Kolkata on Wednesday evening. There was no report of any casualty in the blaze, which broke out in one of the shanties around 7.30 pm and quickly spread to adjoining houses, officials said. Twenty fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames, a fire brigade official said. "The fire has been contained. But due to presence of combustible materials in the shanties, it is taking t ...Read More >
Surat: A fire broke out at a chemical factory in Makhinga village of Palsana in Surat, Gujarat, on Wednesday. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and efforts to control the fire are underway, a fire officer said. Fire Officer Rishi Soni told reporters, "A call was received this morning about a fire in a chemical factory. The fire tenders were immediately deployed on the spot. The efforts to douse the fire are underway. The cause of the fire is unknown." Further details are awaited. Earlier o ...Read More >
Agra: Thirteen people were charred to death and more than 100 suffered injuries in a deadly pile-up involving 18-19 vehicles - including eight passenger buses, cars and SUVs - on the Yamuna Expressway in UP's Mathura district early Tuesday.The accident was reported around 3.40am near milestone 127 under Baldeo police station. Sources said a car and a bus first collided, and as these two vehicles stopped on the road, others coming from the Agra side and heading towards Noida started piling up one ...Read More >
Surat (Gujarat) [India], December 17 (ANI): A fire broke out at a chemical factory in Makhinga village of Palsana in Surat, Gujarat, on Wednesday. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and efforts to control the fire are underway, a fire officer said. Fire Officer Rishi Soni told reporters, "A call was received this morning about a fire in a chemical factory. The fire tenders were immediately deployed on the spot. The efforts to douse the fire are underway. The cause of the fire is unknown." F ...Read More >
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): Bodies of those killed in a major accident on the Delhi-Agra Expressway were brought in body bags to the postmortem facitility in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Tuesday, as authorities continued efforts to ascertain the exact death toll and identify the deceased. At least four people lost their lives, and 25 others sustained injuries after several buses caught fire following a massive collision on the Delhi-Agra Expressway in Mathura district duri ...Read More >
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): Bodies of those killed in a major accident on the Delhi-Agra Expressway were brought in body bags to the postmortem facitility in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Tuesday, as authorities continued efforts to ascertain the exact death toll and identify the deceased. At least four people lost their lives, and 25 others sustained injuries after several buses caught fire following a massive collision on the Delhi-Agra Expressway in Mathura district duri ...Read More >
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in a road accident on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura district. At least four people lost their lives and 25 others sustained injuries after several buses caught fire following a massive collision on the Delhi-Agra Expressway during the early hours of Tuesday. Describing the incident as "extremely tragic and heart-rending," the Chief Minister ...Read More >
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): At least four people lost their lives and 25 others sustained injuries after several buses caught fire following a massive collision on the Delhi-Agra Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district during the early hours of Tuesday, officials said. According to the police, the accident occurred at Yamuna Expressway's Milestone 127 amid low visibility caused by dense fog. Soon after the incident, police teams and fire department personnel rushe ...Read More >
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 16 (ANI): At least four people lost their lives and 25 others sustained injuries after several buses caught fire following a massive collision on the Delhi-Agra Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district during the early hours of Tuesday, officials said. According to the police, the accident occurred at Yamuna Expressway's Milestone 127 amid low visibility caused by dense fog. Soon after the incident, police teams and fire department personnel rushe ...Read More >
A massive fire erupted at a bar in Bhubaneswar this morning. Thick plumes of smoke were seen on the top floor of the building that houses the bar, in horrifying visuals from the Satya Vihar area in Odisha's capital this morning. No casualties were reported. Firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control before it could spread to nearby buildings in the densely populated area. It is now being probed if the fire was caused by a short circuit or some other reason, even as the exact cause r ...Read More >
Kanpur: A massive fire gutted the Irrigation Department's Lower Ganga Canal Block, Etawah Division office on Sunday, reducing the entire building and nearly five decades of departmental records to ashes before fire brigade teams could bring the blaze under control.While officials cited a possible short circuit as the cause, a detailed investigation is underway to ascertain the exact reason.The office was closed on Sunday and the fire came to light early Monday morning when residents noticed smok ...Read More >
Around 300 shops were gutted after a major fire broke out early Saturday on Kolkata's Ezra Street. Fire officials said there were no casualties as residents living in adjoining buildings had been evacuated in time. "We had evacuated all the buildings. So no casualties," Indira Mukherjee, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kolkata Central, told reporters, reported the Indian Express. Twenty fire engines have been deployed to control the blaze, which officials believe was triggered by a short circuit ...Read More >
Gorakhpur, Nov 16 (PTI) A massive fire erupted at the Waterways Restaurant & Banquet near the Taramandal Buddhist Museum here on Sunday, leaving one staff member dead and causing extensive property damage, officials said. The blaze, which started around 5 am, quickly spread through the entire three-storey building, with thick smoke engulfing the area and triggering panic among locals. Chief Fire Officer Santosh Kumar said the fire control room received an alert at 5:16 am, following which four ...Read More >
The five passengers in the car -- two men, two women and a 3-year-old girl -- were among the dead Eight people have died and multiple others have been injured after a truck lost control and plowed into other vehicles on a busy highway in India, according to local media reports. The incident occurred on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 13, at around 5:45 p.m. local time, after a Mumbai-bound trailer truck hit at least 13 vehicles on the Bhumkar Bridge-Navale Bridge stretch of the busy Pune-Bengalu ...Read More >
A blast in a Hyundai i20 car at a Red Fort Metro Station traffic signal killed eight and injured several others. Union Home Minister Amit Shah confirmed the incident and stated that multiple probe agencies are investigating, with orders issued to examine all nearby CCTV cameras to explore all possibilities. Union Home Minister Amit Shah confirmed that the blast near Gate 1 of Red Fort Metro Station in Delhi occured in a Hyundai i20 car which was moving slowly at the Subhash Marg traffic signal. ...Read More >
New Delhi, 10 Nov: A high-intensity explosion ripped through a car parked near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening, gutting several vehicles and killing at least eight people, officials said. Twenty-four people were injured in the blast that took place on a busy evening when the area was milling with people. The injured were taken to the LNJP hospital a few kilometres away. A high alert has been sounded in Delhi. Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot with police cordoning off the a ...Read More >
A fire broke out in an Air India bus parked near Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Tuesday afternoon, an official said. IMAGE: A fire breaks out in a bus near Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Photograph: Video grab/X Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI) Vichitra Veer, in a statement, said the bus was not carrying any passengers or luggage at the time of the incident. The incident was reported at 1 pm to the IGI Airport Police S ...Read More >
New Delhi: A fire broke out in a bus at Terminal 3 of Delhi airport around noon on Tuesday. No one was injured. An inquiry has been started to know what caused the fire.The bus was operated by AISATS, one of the ground-handling agencies at the airport. Police was alerted about the blaze around 1 pm. Fire tenders, cops, the CISF and other agencies soon reached the spot. "The bus was not carrying any passenger or luggage at the time. Only the driver was there. The fire was extinguished, and no inj ...Read More >
Jaipur: Two people were killed and six injured when a bus carrying 65 passengers, mostly labourers from Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, caught fire after coming into contact with an 11 kV overhead power line in Todi village, Manoharpur, roughly 55 km from Jaipur Tuesday morning.Additional SP Tejpal Singh said the deceased were in the process of deboarding the bus near a brick kiln, when it came into contact with the power line. Bystanders and some passengers had tried to warn the driver of the hazard j ...Read More >
In a meticulously planned murder, a woman, her ex-boyfriend, and his friend allegedly killed her live-in partner, a UPSC aspirant, and set his body ablaze to conceal the crime. The trio attempted to stage the scene as a domestic accident, but CCTV footage and a subsequent investigation led to their arrests. In one of Delhi's most macabre crimes this year, police have arrested a 21-year-old woman, her ex-boyfriend, and his friend for allegedly killing her live-in partner -- a UPSC aspirant -- an ...Read More >
In another major bus accident in Jaipur, two people were burnt to death after the vehicle carrying labourers came in contact with a high-tension power line. An 11,000-kilovolt power line broke and fell onto the bus, leading to an electric shock and fire. Ten labourers on board had come from Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly to work at a brick kiln in Todi. Five of the labourers are in critical condition and have been referred to Sawai Maan Singh Hospital in Jaipur. Four others are being treated at the S ...Read More >
Mumbai: On the morning of October 26, a fire broke at Kandivali West's Agarwal Residency, where eight people were rescued. The fire broke out on the second floor of the sixteen-storey residential building in the Shankar Lane area of Kandivali West. As the information about the fire was received, the firefighters reached the spot quickly and doused the fire within 20 minutes times. Eight residents were rescued from the incident of which two were men, three women, and three children, including a ...Read More >
Jalandhar (Punjab) [India], October 28 (ANI): A massive fire broke out at a rubber factory warehouse located in an open plot in Lamba Pind Chowk on Monday night. Fire tenders have reached the spot, and dousing operations are underway. The exact cause of the fire incident is yet to be ascertained, officials said. Assistant Divisional Fire Officer (ADFO) Maninder Singh said that around 10 fire brigade vehicles are tackling the fire. "We received a call reporting a fire at a tyre warehouse in a ...Read More >
Lucknow: It was a providential escape for 22 patients after a major fire broke out early Monday at the Northern Railway Divisional Hospital in Lucknow's Alambagh, triggering panic among patients and staff. The blaze, suspected to have started from a short circuit in the CCTV server room on the ground floor around 5:15 am, quickly spread through electrical wiring, filling the three-storey building with thick black smoke.The Critical Care Unit (CCU) on the first floor was soon engulfed, prompting ...Read More >
A devastating fire engulfed a restaurant at Moradabad's Clarks Inn Hotel, escalating rapidly after multiple gas cylinder explosions. Firefighters heroically rescued 16 individuals, including women and children, along with a dog. Tragically, one person was declared dead upon arrival at the hospital, while others are reported stable. The blaze's origin remains under investigation. In a dreadful incident, a massive fire broke out in a restaurant on the ground floor of Clarks Inn Hotel under the Ka ...Read More >
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 27 (ANI): A massive fire broke out in a scrap warehouse in Pawansur Colony under the Bhaodapur police station area of Gwalior. The situation was controlled by the fire department, and there were no casualties. Additional Superintendent of Police, Anu Beniwal, says, "We had received information about a fire breaking out in a warehouse. The fire has been brought under control... The police force and the SDRF team are present at the incident site. More tha ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 27 (ANI): A massive fire erupted at a two-story Bata showroom in Crawford Market of Mumbai, Maharashtra, on Sunday. The situation was controlled with the help of multiple fire engines and water tankers. Reportedly, all the stock of footwear, electrical cables, and wiring has been destroyed due to the blaze. DFO Santosh Sawant said that the situation is now under control and an investigation has been launched to identify the cause of the incident. "The fire ...Read More >
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 27 (ANI): A massive fire broke out in a scrap warehouse in Pawansur Colony under the Bhaodapur police station area of Gwalior. The situation was controlled by the fire department, and there were no casualties. Additional Superintendent of Police, Anu Beniwal, says, "We had received information about a fire breaking out in a warehouse. The fire has been brought under control... The police force and the SDRF team are present at the incident site. More tha ...Read More >
Lucknow: Quick thinking by bus driver Jagat Singh and his two aides, Shyam Sundar and Manish, saved the lives of 39 passengers when their Delhi-Gonda sleeper bus suddenly caught fire on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway early Sunday morning.Speaking to The Times of India, driver Jagat Singh recounted the harrowing moments before the bus was engulfed in flames. "Around 4:30 am, the rear tyre suddenly burst with a loud sound. I immediately pulled the bus to the side and got down to check. Within moments ...Read More >
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