fire incident

Kozhikode (Kerala), March 9 A woman who had suffered severe burn injuries while participating in the Attukal Pongala in Thiruvananthapuram recently died at a hospital here on Monday, family sources said.The deceased, Vijisha, a resident of West Hill here, succumbed to injuries while undergoing...

Kozhikode (Kerala), March 7 A fire broke out in a building within the St. Patrick's Church complex here on Saturday morning, causing damage worth approximately Rs 8 lakh, police said.The incident occurred in the early hours, and according to CCTV footage, an unidentified man set fire to the...

New Delhi, March 7 A fire broke out in a banquet hall in Moti Nagar, west Delhi, on Saturday, prompting authorities to dispatch five fire tenders, according to an official of the Delhi Fire Services.No injuries were reported in the incident, the official said.Upon receiving a call regarding...

New Delhi, March 6 Tensions escalated in southwest Delhi's Uttam Nagar on Friday as a car and a motorcycle were set on fire, and a large protest by Hindu political groups blocked traffic for several hours, following the death of a 26-year-old man in a clash during Holi celebrations.According...

Mumbai, March 6 At least 11 people, mostly workers, were injured on Friday in an explosion at a chemical factory in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, about 250 kilometers from here, police said.Four of those injured in the explosion, caused by a fire in a reactor at the Dr Khan Industrial...

New Delhi, March 6 A fire broke out in a four-story building in Bhajanpura, a northeastern Delhi area, on Friday afternoon, prompting authorities to dispatch nine fire tenders, a Delhi Fire Services official said.A call regarding the fire in the building, which housed several restaurants, was...

Dibrugarh (Assam), March 5 A major fire broke out on Thursday at the railway mechanical workshop in the Dibrugarh district of Assam, officials said.There have been no reports of any injuries so far, they added.The incident occurred at the first mechanical railway workshop in Northeast India...

Shimla, March 5 Four rooms in a residential building were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Eidgah Colony area in the heart of Shimla city on Thursday afternoon, officials said.However, no casualties or injuries were reported.A fire officer told

Palghar, March 5 A fire broke out in a girls' hostel of a state-run ashram school in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Thursday, though there are no reports of injuries as all 87 inmates were successfully evacuated, a civic official said.The blaze erupted at 5:20 pm at the hostel of the school...

New Delhi, March 5 Two charred bodies were recovered, while six others were found in a multi-story building after a fire broke out in the Sadar Bazar area of north Delhi, officials said on Thursday.A call was received at 4:38 pm on Wednesday regarding a fire in a toy warehouse operating from a...

Hyderabad, March 5 A fire broke out at a warehouse in the Katedan area here on Thursday, although no one was injured in the incident, police said.The fire was reported around 4:30 am, and four fire tenders were deployed, and the fire was extinguished by 7:30 am, a police official at the...

New Delhi, March 5 An electric bus belonging to the Delhi Transport Corporation caught fire near a hospital on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road in south Delhi on Thursday afternoon, officials of the Delhi Fire Services said.All passengers were safely evacuated in time, with no injuries reported...

New Delhi, March 5 A massive fire swept through a cluster of slums in Delhi's Rithala area early on Thursday, killing a 17-year-old girl and destroying more than 100 huts, leaving dozens of migrant families homeless.Firefighters recovered the charred body of the girl, who had initially been...

New Delhi, March 5 A fire broke out at a warehouse located in the Rangpuri area of Delhi on Thursday, according to a Delhi Fire Services official.No casualties have been reported.The official said they received a call about the fire at 10:10 am."We immediately dispatched nine fire tenders...

Jaipur, March 5. Panic spread late Wednesday night after a tanker carrying chemicals overturned and caught fire on the Nagaur-Ladnun stretch of National Highway 458 in Rajasthan. The fire was so intense that flames and thick smoke were visible from almost two kilometers away.Authorities...

New Delhi, March 5 A massive fire broke out in a cluster of slums in Delhi's Rithala area early Thursday morning, destroying over 50 huts, an official said.The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) launched an operation and about 16 fire engines were deployed to control the rapidly spreading flames in the...

New Delhi, March 5 Two charred bodies were recovered from the fourth floor of a building after a fire broke out in central Delhi's Paharganj area, a Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said on Thursday.A call regarding the blaze was received at 4:38 pm on Wednesday. The fire had broken out in a...

Jamshedpur, March 4 The partially-burnt body of a woman and the remains of an elderly woman with her throat slit were recovered from two locations in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Wednesday, police said.The charred body of the woman, estimated to be around 22 years old, was...

Amaravati, March 4 – Five members of a family were killed when a car they were travelling in crashed into a truck in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred on the Bengaluru-Chennai national highway near Dundapalli cross in Gangavaram mandal...

Kolkata, March 4 One person died after a fire broke out in a cluster of shops near the Madhyamgram railway station in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, officials said.The body of an employee from a sweetmeat shop was recovered from the damaged shop after fire service...