According to officials, the incident occurred around 5:32 pm on March 6, 2026, after the Disaster Management Cell received information from the Rustamji Fire Station about a fire inside a flat in A2 Wing of Building No. 73 at Vrindavan Society in Thane (West)

According to the police, the explosion took place at the Dr Khan Industrial Consultants (DKIC) unit located at Lote Parshuram MIDC (chemical zone), around 250 km from Mumbai