Continued from page 01 The fire broke out in flat number two on the ground floor of the C wing of Sameer Apartments located at Sainagar, Vasai West. A senior citizen couple u2014 Hasmukh Parmar and Bharti Parmar u2014 who owns the house, were not present at the time of the incident.

According to Bharti, she had lit a lamp in the u2018 mandiru2019 at her house and had gone out for some work.