Forty-five godowns where paper, plastic and other scrap items were stored were destroyed in a fire that broke out in Maharashtra's Thane district, officials told the news agency PTI.

No person was injured in the blaze which erupted at 3.40 pm on Tuesday in Uttar Shiv village in the Shil Phata area, Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant told PTI.