Mumbai: Barely two months later Fire a. on the 19th floor of skyscraper killed a person in lower parelSix people were killed and 24 others were injured in a fire that broke out on the 19th floor of a tower in Tardeo on Saturday morning.
Fire officials said the fire broke out around 6.45 am in the 20-storey Sachinam Heights located opposite Bhatia Hospital in Tardeo. Many residents of the building were still sleeping when the fire broke out. They said when they realized what was happening, the lights had gone out and there was thick black smoke around the corridors of the building as they ran to escape down the stairs. The probable cause of the fire was short circuit.
Officials said three people died of burns and three others died of suffocation as they were inhaling the fumes. While five of the six victims had been identified, the body of one person at Nair Hospital was not identified till late Saturday night. Police said the body was unrecognizable and they would have to conduct DNA test of the family members to identify the person.
The five other dead have been identified as Hitesh Subodh Mistry, 40, Moushumi Subodh Mistry, 45, and Meena Subodh Mistry, 65, who lives in flat number 1904, Purushottam Chopdekar, 42, who lives on the 16th floor, and Manjuben Kantharia. have happened in Another 19th floor resident. Of the 24 injured, 17 people were hospitalized till the time of writing this news. It is feared that the fire spread through the length of the building through an electrical duct, resulting in thick smoke all around. Flat number 1904, where the fire broke out, was gutted along with parts of the corridors.
While the building, which is a rehabilitation component of a redevelopment project being undertaken by Kamala Group, received a occupation certificate in 2015, fire officials said its fire fighting equipment was not working, nor did the building meet the mandated bi-annual Fire audit was submitted. report good.
PM Modi expressed grief over the incident and announced on Twitter that the family members of each of the deceased would be provided an ex-gratia amount of 2 lakhs from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. He said that 50-50 thousand would be given to the injured. state tourism minister Aditya ThackerayThe person who visited the spot said that the government would give a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family members of each of the deceased.
Fire officials said the fire broke out around 6.45 am in the 20-storey Sachinam Heights located opposite Bhatia Hospital in Tardeo. Many residents of the building were still sleeping when the fire broke out. They said when they realized what was happening, the lights had gone out and there was thick black smoke around the corridors of the building as they ran to escape down the stairs. The probable cause of the fire was short circuit.
Officials said three people died of burns and three others died of suffocation as they were inhaling the fumes. While five of the six victims had been identified, the body of one person at Nair Hospital was not identified till late Saturday night. Police said the body was unrecognizable and they would have to conduct DNA test of the family members to identify the person.
The five other dead have been identified as Hitesh Subodh Mistry, 40, Moushumi Subodh Mistry, 45, and Meena Subodh Mistry, 65, who lives in flat number 1904, Purushottam Chopdekar, 42, who lives on the 16th floor, and Manjuben Kantharia. have happened in Another 19th floor resident. Of the 24 injured, 17 people were hospitalized till the time of writing this news. It is feared that the fire spread through the length of the building through an electrical duct, resulting in thick smoke all around. Flat number 1904, where the fire broke out, was gutted along with parts of the corridors.
While the building, which is a rehabilitation component of a redevelopment project being undertaken by Kamala Group, received a occupation certificate in 2015, fire officials said its fire fighting equipment was not working, nor did the building meet the mandated bi-annual Fire audit was submitted. report good.
PM Modi expressed grief over the incident and announced on Twitter that the family members of each of the deceased would be provided an ex-gratia amount of 2 lakhs from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. He said that 50-50 thousand would be given to the injured. state tourism minister Aditya ThackerayThe person who visited the spot said that the government would give a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family members of each of the deceased.
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