NEW DELHI, Dec 31 (NNN-PTI) – At least six people died, and around nine others injured, when a fire broke out inside a factory, in India’s south-western state of Maharashtra, on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, confirmed a local police over the phone.
The fire broke out inside a hand-gloves manufacturing unit, in the state’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, when the victims were asleep.
The cause of the fire has not been ascertained yet.
“We received a phone call at around 01:15 about this fire. We rushed to the spot along with fire-fighting equipment. Fire has been doused. Six bodies have been recovered. The injured are admitted to a local hospital,” said a local fire department official.
A couple of the injured received serious burn injuries, he added.– NNN-PTI
