Noida: Electrician dies in fire in Noida banquet hall
Noida (PTI): A massive fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday in a banquet hall here, resulting in the death of an electrician, officials said.
Police said the fire erupted around 3:30 am in the "Lotus Grenadier" banquet hall near Sarfabad village under the jurisdiction of Sector-113 police station.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 1) Rambadan Singh said fire department personnel reached the scene around 3:40 am with five fire engines.
However, as the fire kept spreading, 10 more fire engines were dispatched to contain the blaze.
"Several people trapped inside were safely evacuated but an electrician named Pravendra died in the fire," Singh said.
Chief Fire Officer Pradeep Kumar Chaubey said the hall's primarily wooden structure contributed to the rapid spread of the fire. It took the department nearly three hours to bring the fire under control.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, police said.
A similar fire incident occurred in the same banquet hall on November 21 last year. No casualties were reported in that incident.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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