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The incident occurred when the driver of the truck laden with automobiles was passing under an electric wire accidentally touched it.

Tirumala Station Fire Officer Venkata Ramana Reddy told ANI over the phone that at around 6 am a fire started and spread to seven shops.

According to locals, Siddi Ramulu and his wife left their home for their agriculture field to guard the harvested crop on Sunday night ,leaving Bhavani and their son at home.

The incident took place around 9.30 pm on Saturday in the flat located on the seventh floor of a building in Badlapur township.

Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the fire began when a spark set one fuel tanker ablaze.

Bimla Devi died in the incident in Fanel village in the district's Kotkhai area.

Gadchiroli: Naxals set four tractors and two tankers on fire in Permili area of Gadchiroli district on Monday. Further details are awaited. In another similar incident on March 29, five Naxals were killed in an encounter with Maharashtra police in Kurkheda’s Khobramendha forest area in Gadchiroli. (ANI)

Officials are yet to identify all the deceased, though it is said the building's security guard is among the dead.

Thirteen coronavirus patients died after the blaze in the intensive care unit (ICU) located on the second floor of the four-storeyed Vijay Vallabh Hospital at Virar in the early hours of Friday.

The fire broke out in the ICU on the second floor of the four-storeyed Vijay Vallabh Hospital at Virar shortly after 3 am, an official said.

According to Fire officials, the fire broke out in a chair manufacturing unit in the Mallapur Industrial Area in Nacharam.

Raghuvir Lal, 65, a retired PWD employee, was charred to death when he was engulfed in flames while trying to extinguish a blaze in Soniyala forest area.

Police are yet to establish the cause of deaths, but the fire seemed to have emanated from an air conditioner, preliminary reports indicated.

Sources said the mishap occurred when the lorry carrying a load of fisheries products from Narsapur in Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad collided with another vehicle.

According to the local people, fire started in the garbage dump in the old bus stand complex around 2 pm. Noticing the smoke, the local people immediately alerted the Hussainialam police who rushed to the spot

Taking cognizance of increasing forest fire in the state, Uttarakhand High Court on April 6 ordered Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Rajiv Bhartari to appear before it.

Officials said that it is a non-COVID facility and 31 patients were undergoing treatment, with 10 of them in the ICU, when the incident occurred around 8.10 pm

There was no immediate report of injuries. Approximately 100 people were assigned to fight the fire.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday announced a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of the deceased, according to a statement issued by his office.

According to Fire officials, the blaze started around 11.30 am in the warehouse located behind the Afzalgunj bus station.