At least five people were killed and more than 15 others injured after a massive fire, reportedly triggered by a short circuit, engulfed the ICU of Prasad Hospital in Muzaffarpur early Thursday.
A late-night fire in a Bengaluru PG exposed safety gaps in mixed-use buildings, with residents forced into desperate escape attempts as flames spread rapidly from a commercial outlet.
A devastating fire at a scrap warehouse in the Neemrana area claimed four lives, including that of a 7-year-old girl, after a massive blaze and subsequent explosion triggered panic late on Friday evening, said officials on Saturday.
A fire broke out at a multi-storey hospital in Salt Lake, a posh satellite township in Kolkata's north-east fringes on Tuesday morning.
A vehicle transporting lighters caught fire after being hit from behind in Dumka, Jharkhand, setting off a blaze that destroyed four trucks and left at least two people injured. Authorities said the fire has now been brought under control.
In the recent past, multiple fire incidents have been reported from across the national capital in quick succession, including one at CR building in ITO on May 14 in which an office superintendent lost his life while the charred body of a labourer was recovered from a paper godown in Shakarpur where a fire broke out on May 15.
At the time of the incident, on Saturday night, there were 12 newborn babies at the medical facility. Of them, six infants could be rescued from the building inferno.
The fire broke out inside the gaming zone in a shopping mall when it was teeming with children.
A devastating fire broke out at a residential building that accommodates a shoe warehouse in Kalna town this morning.
A fire broke out in a multi-storey building at Dasdrone in the Kaikhali area. The fire engulfed a garment manufacturing unit on the top floor of a five-storey building.
