Navi Mumbai: Fire breaks out at textile factory; none hurt

A fire broke out at a textile manufacturing unit in an industrial area of Navi Mumbai in the wee hours of Saturday an official from the fire brigade said reported news agency PTINo one was injured in the blaze that erupted at a factory in the Pawna MIDC area around 130 am the official from the fire station said reported PTINine fire engines and water tankers of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation NMMC and MIDC rushed to the spot and battled the blaze till around 8 am when it was brought under control he said reported PTIThe cooling operations were underway the official said adding that the cause for the fire will be probed reported PTIAccording to the district disaster management cell the factory belonged to a company manufacturing textiles and further details were not immediately available reported PTIIn another incident a fire destroyed a scrap godown in Maharashtras Thane a civic official said on Friday reported PTINo one was injured in the fire that broke out around 930 pm at Shilphata on Thursday said Yasin Tadvi chief of the Disaster Management Cell of Thane civic body reported PTICivic and fire officials rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control in about one and a half hours he said reported PTIThe cause of the fire is yet to be determined he said adding that the godown was ravaged in the accident reported PTIMeanwhile The death toll from a fire that engulfed a residential building in suburban Borivali earlier this week rose to three after a woman succumbed to burn injuries on Friday civic officials said reported PTIA municipal corporation official said 24yearold Rajeshwari Bhartare died while undergoing treatment at civicrun Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokali in the evening taking the toll to three reported PTIShe had sustained 80 per cent burn injuries in the blaze that broke out on the first floor of the eight storey residential building Veena Santoor on Monday October 23 reported PTIFive people were injured in the fire and two of them a 43yearold woman Glory Walphati and a boy Josu Gems Robert 8 were declared brought dead when they were taken to civicrun Shatabdi Hospital on the day of the incident reported PTIThe civic official said a 42yearold woman Lakshmi Bura who had sustained 47 per cent burn injuries is undergoing treatment and her condition is critical but stable reported PTIHe said another injured woman was discharged from hospital against medical advice reported PTIWith inputs from PTI