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  • Massive fire in Bihar’s Aurangabad during Chhath Puja, several injured

    By PTI

    AURANGABAD: At least 25 people were injured in a massive fire that broke out at a house in Bihar’s Aurangabad district in the early hours of Saturday, officials said.

    The incident happened when the family of Anil Goswami, who owns the house, was cooking for Chhath Puja around 2.30 am, they said.

    Fire engines were immediately rushed to the spot but exploding cooking gas cylinders further fuelled the blaze, they added.

    Bihar: A massive fire broke out outside Agam Kuan Police Station in Patna. Dozens of seized vehicles parked outside the PS burned to ashes. Fire tenders at the spot. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/gOwHaLd4F0
    — ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2021
    Those injured were undergoing treatment at a hospital, officials said.

    An investigation is underway to identify the cause of the fire, they said.

    AURANGABAD: At least 25 people were injured in a massive fire that broke out at a house in Bihar’s Aurangabad district in the early hours of Saturday, officials said.

    The incident happened when the family of Anil Goswami, who owns the house, was cooking for Chhath Puja around 2.30 am, they said.

    Fire engines were immediately rushed to the spot but exploding cooking gas cylinders further fuelled the blaze, they added.

    Bihar: A massive fire broke out outside Agam Kuan Police Station in Patna. Dozens of seized vehicles parked outside the PS burned to ashes. Fire tenders at the spot. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/gOwHaLd4F0
    — ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2021
    Those injured were undergoing treatment at a hospital, officials said.

    An investigation is underway to identify the cause of the fire, they said.

  • Blast in illegal firecrackers unit leaves six dead, two wounded in Bihar’s Saran district

    Express News Service

    PATNA: As many as six people, including a woman, were killed and two others were seriously wounded following serial explosions inside an illegal firecrackers unit in Bihar’s Saran district on Sunday.

    The injured have been rushed to a primary health centre at Khaira and later shifted to Sadar hospital at Chhapra for better treatment. The doctors attending to the injured described their condition as critical.

    The eyewitnesses said that the fire broke out at around 11.45 am in the house of one Mohammad Reyazu Mian at Khodaibagh village, adjacent to a mosque. Soon the three-story building was razed to the ground due to a series of explosions.

    Huge stock of explosives was stocked to make firecrackers in the building.

    The locals said that the tremor of the explosion was felt within a radius of about 3 km. Half a dozen fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the frames.

    The deceased were identified as Amina Khatun (55), her two sons—Mulazim (35) and Sabir Ali (22), Mulazim’s daughter Yasmin (8) and son Shahzad (5). The identity of the sixth body is yet to be ascertained.

    Saran Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar said that an FSL team has been requisitioned from Muzaffarpur to collect evidence from the spot. “The cause of the explosion will be ascertained after the receipt of the FSL report,” he revealed.

    “Prima facie it appeared that the explosion took place during the making of firecrackers inside the building. The huge stock of explosive material used in making firecrackers came in contact with the fire, which led to the explosion,” another investigating officer said.

    Saran Deputy Superintendent of Police Muneshwar Singh said that six bodies were exhumed from the debris of the building. “The death toll may rise as some people were believed to be under the debris,” he said.

    He revealed that personnel of the bomb disposal squad have also arrived to the explosion site. “Further investigation is on,” the Dy.SP said.

    The locals alleged that at least 12 illegal firecracker units were running in the area. The district officials said that licenses have not been issued to any person for making firecrackers. 

    According to the locals, two explosions had earlier taken place at Olhanpur under Khaira police station in the district in which one person lost his life.

    Earlier, 16 people were killed in a similar incident in the Bhagalpur district.

    PATNA: As many as six people, including a woman, were killed and two others were seriously wounded following serial explosions inside an illegal firecrackers unit in Bihar’s Saran district on Sunday.

    The injured have been rushed to a primary health centre at Khaira and later shifted to Sadar hospital at Chhapra for better treatment. The doctors attending to the injured described their condition as critical.

    The eyewitnesses said that the fire broke out at around 11.45 am in the house of one Mohammad Reyazu Mian at Khodaibagh village, adjacent to a mosque. Soon the three-story building was razed to the ground due to a series of explosions.

    Huge stock of explosives was stocked to make firecrackers in the building.

    The locals said that the tremor of the explosion was felt within a radius of about 3 km. Half a dozen fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the frames.

    The deceased were identified as Amina Khatun (55), her two sons—Mulazim (35) and Sabir Ali (22), Mulazim’s daughter Yasmin (8) and son Shahzad (5). The identity of the sixth body is yet to be ascertained.

    Saran Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar said that an FSL team has been requisitioned from Muzaffarpur to collect evidence from the spot. “The cause of the explosion will be ascertained after the receipt of the FSL report,” he revealed.

    “Prima facie it appeared that the explosion took place during the making of firecrackers inside the building. The huge stock of explosive material used in making firecrackers came in contact with the fire, which led to the explosion,” another investigating officer said.

    Saran Deputy Superintendent of Police Muneshwar Singh said that six bodies were exhumed from the debris of the building. “The death toll may rise as some people were believed to be under the debris,” he said.

    He revealed that personnel of the bomb disposal squad have also arrived to the explosion site. “Further investigation is on,” the Dy.SP said.

    The locals alleged that at least 12 illegal firecracker units were running in the area. The district officials said that licenses have not been issued to any person for making firecrackers. 

    According to the locals, two explosions had earlier taken place at Olhanpur under Khaira police station in the district in which one person lost his life.

    Earlier, 16 people were killed in a similar incident in the Bhagalpur district.

  • Fire breaks out at Bihar minister’s house; no casualty

    By PTI
    PATNA: A fire broke out at the official residence of Bihar Minister for Minor Irrigation and SC/ST Welfare, Santosh Kumar Suman, in Patna on Wednesday, fire department officials said.

    Suman, son of former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) president Jitan Ram Manjhi, and his family members were present at the house when the fire was detected.

    However, no casualty was reported in the incident.

    The blaze broke out in the morning on the ground floor of the ministerial bungalow located on Strand Road and it burnt clothes, furniture and electronic equipment before it was doused by two fire tenders in around a couple of hours.

    The exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained but the possibility of short-circuit cannot be ruled out, a senior fire department official said.

    “I don’t know whether fire prevention systems have been installed in the building or not. We all were inside the house when the fire broke out at 8 am,” the minister said.

    The incident must be probed, the HAM leader told reporters.

  • Five of family burnt to death in Bihar’s Kishanganj

    By PTI
    KISHANGANJ: Five members of a family, including four minors, were charred to death when a fire broke out in their house in Bihar’s Kishanganj on Monday, officials said.

    All the five were asleep when the fire erupted in their residence in Salam colony at around 3 am, sub-divisional magistrate Shahnawaz Ahmad Niyazi said.

    “Noor Alam and his two daughters Tauhfa, Babli and sons Rahmat and Shahid were burnt to death when the fire broke out at their house.

    His wife with burn injuries has been admitted to a hospital,” the SDM said.

    On receiving information, fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the fire, he said.

    Sub-divisional police officer Anwar Javed Ansari said an investigation has been initiated, and the reason behind the fire incident could not be ascertained.

    Bodies were sent to the Sadar hospital for post mortem, he said.

    “We are investigating the matter. The exact reason behind the incident could be known once the probe is completed,” the SDPO said.