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  • Four dead, 15 injured as fire breaks out in Jammu building

    By PTI

    JAMMU: Four people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 15 others injured after a massive fire broke out in a building here on Monday, police said.

    The fire broke out in the evening in a scrap shop on the ground floor of the building in Residency Road area apparently due to a short circuit.

    Soon the flames engulfed the entire building and some of the LPG cylinders kept inside exploded, said Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu, Chandan Kohli.

    Jammu and Kashmir | 4 people died and 14 got injured after a fire broke out in a scrap shop around 6.15 pm. Cylinders inside the shop also exploded. Rescue operation underway: Mukesh Singh, ADGP Jammu Zone pic.twitter.com/8Nu4xf1rjj
    — ANI (@ANI) March 14, 2022
    He said three people, including a child, were charred to death in the incident and 15 others were rescued and rushed to the hospital. Another body was recovered later.

    Residents of the building were mostly workers from Assam, the officials said. They said the condition of one of the injured, who had suffered 80 per cent burns, was stated to be critical. The identities of the deceased could not be established immediately, they added.

    A spokesperson of the Fire and Emergency Services Department said they received a call about the fire around 6.10 pm and immediately rushed fire tenders to the spot.

    Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh also rushed to the scene to supervise the firefighting and rescue operation.

    Singh has directed SSP, Jammu to investigate the incident, a police spokesperson said. “Over a dozen families were living in the building. The fire spread very fast, many of the residents could not escape immediately,” said a building resident Anwar Hussain.

    Another survivor, Yasmeena Khatoon, said the building residents lost everything in the fire. “We could not retrieve anything and tried to flee the raging fire,” she said, adding that many of her relatives are either injured or missing after the incident.

    Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha condoled the loss of lives in the fire and announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each for the families of the deceased.

    “My condolences to the bereaved families and prayers for speedy recovery of the injured,” he said in a series of tweets.

    “An ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to be given to the families of the deceased while Rs 1 lakh be given to the seriously injured and Rs 25,000 to those with minor injuries,” he said.

    Sinha also directed the administration to provide all necessary assistance to the affected families.

  • Gujarat: Four minors among nine killed in explosion caused by LPG cylinder leakage

    By PTI
    AHMEDABAD: Four children and five others have succumbed to severe burn injuries they had suffered in an explosion and fire that was triggered by leakage of gas from an LPG cylinder in a room on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city, a police official said on Saturday.

    The incident had occurred on the night of July 20.

    While eight victims – labourers and their family members – died in the last couple of days during treatment, another one succumbed on Saturday.

    All of them were from Madhya Pradesh, he said.

    “Leakage of gas from an LPG cylinder had triggered explosion and fire, in which 10 persons, including children and women, had suffered severe burn injuries.

    The incident has claimed the lives of nine of them so far.

    They were undergoing treatment at the civil hospital,” inspector P R Jadeja of Aslali police station said.

    Three persons died during treatment on Thursday, five others succumbed on Friday and one more on Saturday morning, he said.

    The labourers and their family members were sleeping in the small room when the gas from their cylinder started leaking.

    When their neighbour knocked on their door to alert them about it, one of the labourers got up and switched on the light, which triggered a spark and led to the explosion due to concentration of gas, another police official said.

    The 10 injured persons included the neighbour who had come to alert them, and all of them were rushed to the civil hospital for treatment, he said.

    The deceased have been identified as Rampyari Ahirwar (56), Rajubhai Ahirwar (31), Sonu Ahirwar (21), Seema Ahirwar (25), Sarju Ahirwar (22), Vaishali (7), Nitesh (6), Payal (4), and Akash (2), all natives of Guna district in Madhya Pradesh, the inspector added.

    “One injured person,identified as Kulsinh Bhairwa (30), is undergoing treatment and his condition is said to be critical,” Jadeja said, adding that he hails from Kudgaon in Karauli in Rajasthan, he said.

    Jadeja said that the bodies of the deceased were being sent to their native village in Madhya Pradesh.