A fire broke out in a six-story building on Friday. death At least seven people died and dozens were injured in the western Indian city of Mumbai, official sources reported. “Seven deaths have now been reported,” Assistant Commissioner of Police Renuka Bagde of Goregaon division, where the incident took place, told EFE. Total according to officials 51 people were injured, five of them are in critical condition.
The fire started at dawn on the ground floor of a six-storey residential building, where discarded materials were collected, and later spread to several vehicles parked nearby, sources at the fire brigade in India’s financial capital said. newspaper.
According to the Hindustan Times newspaper, city fire chief Ravindra Ambulgekar said that the building was built in 2006 for slum dwellers. According to Ambulgekar, the absence of a fire system and the poor condition of the elevator caused a significant amount of smoke to reach the upper floors.
As firefighters extinguished the flames at dawn, images of charred shops and metal shutters were left behind.According to videos released by Delhi television network NDTV.
Devendra Fadnavis, deputy chief minister of the Maharashtra state government, expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased on social network X (formerly Twitter) and promised assistance to local authorities.
Fires, collapses and other similar accidents occur frequently in India, often due to the poor state of infrastructure and factors resulting from lack of maintenance, corruption and illegal practices. According to the latest official data, 8,491 accidental fires were recorded in India in 2021, including more than a hundred in factories, in government buildings, schools, residences and other places. 8,348 people lost their lives in these accidents.