16-Oct-2024 01:38 PM
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Mumbai, Oct 16 (Reporter) Three persons were killed after a fire broke out in a multistorey residential building at the upscale Lokhandwala Complex in Mumbai here on Wednesday morning, officials said.
According to the Fire Brigade sources, the fire broke out at 8 am at Riya Palace, Cross Road Number 4, Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West, Mumbai.
The fire was confined to a residential flat on the 10th floor of the ground plus an upper 14-story building.
However, the conflagration was confined to the flat itself, though many panicked neighbours from the same floor and upper floors ran off their homes to wait in the society garden.
The sources further said that several fire tenders and water tankers, plus an ambulance and concerned rescue staff, were at the site, fighting the blaze, and succeeded in extinguishing it within an hour.
Three persons in a badly injured state were rushed to the BMC’s Cooper Hospital at Juhu, where they were declared dead before admission.
They were identified as Chandraprakash Soni and Kanta Soni, both aged 74, and another man living in the flat named Pelubeta, 42, though his relationship with the deceased couple is not clear.
The causes of the fire, tentatively suspected to be owing to a short circuit, are being investigated, said an official at the spot...////...