Elderly woman dies after fire breaks out in multi-storey Mumbai building
Mumbai (PTI): A 70-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in a 13-storey residential building in Kurla area of Mumbai on Wednesday, officials said.
The blaze erupted in the building located in Premier compound, Kohinoor City, following which some people were stranded on various floors due to smoke in the premises. They all were taken to the building's terrace and rescued from there, a civic official said.
The fire was confined between the 4th and 10th floors, he said.
A woman, identified as Shakuntala Ramani, was injured in the fire. She was rushed to the nearby Rajawadi Hospital where doctors declared her "brought dead", the official said.
After the Mumbai police room received the blaze alert, four fire engines and several other fire-fighting vehicles were rushed to the spot. Efforts were on to douse the blaze, the official said.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
