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According to the police, a woman was driving the car when she noticed flames emanating from the engine.

The man, identified as Kalyan (25) from East Godavari of Andhra Pradesh, was reportedly depressed and doused his body with petrol.

Officials said they received an alert from Lajpat Nagar market regarding a massive fire that broke out at Block-1, Central Market, Lajpat Nagar.

The blaze erupted around 3 p.m. in private chemical company, SVC Ltd, in the MIDC area of Pirangut village, and quickly spread within the enclosed premises, trapping many workers

Although she was pulled out of it by people, she sustained around 70 per cent burn injuries.

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