At least eight people Passed and ten more injured after a fire A police source at a shop selling electric motorcycles in southern India told EFE on Tuesday. “Eight people were killed and ten injured” in the fire that started Monday night in Secunderabad in southern Telangana state, Deputy Police Commissioner Chandana Deepti said.
The source said that according to the initial investigation, the fire started at an electric motorcycle outlet located under a hotel. short circuit in one of the batteriesIt caused a chain reaction. A good portion of deaths in the hotel fell unconscious due to smokeIn several videos posted on social networks, several people are seen jumping out of windows to escape the fire.
This fire comes after a series of recent incidents with electric cars and motorcycles in various parts of India, which led authorities to announce tighter safety measures for these vehicles’ batteries.
Fires, landslides and other similar accidents are common in India, often due to poor infrastructure and factors from lack of maintenance, corruption and illegal practices. One of the last major fires in the Asian country occurred on August 1 at a private hospital in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, where at least five people were killed and eleven injured. According to the latest official data available, 9,329 accidental fires were recorded in India in 2020, more than a hundred of them in factories, in government buildings, schools, residences and elsewhere. In these events, 9110 people died and 468 people were injured.