Mumbai: almost two months after the fire on the 19th floor Highrise killed one person in the lower Parel, six people were killed and 24 injured in the broken flames on the 19th floor of the tower on Saturday morning.
The fire began at around 6.45 in the morning at the 20th-story Heights Sachinam, located opposite the Bhatia Hospital in Tardeo, the fire brigade official said.
Many residents of the building are still asleep when the fire starts.
They said when they realized what had happened, the lights had come out and there was thick black smoke along the building corridor when they rushed away from the stairs.
Short circuit is the cause of the fire.
Officials said three people died of burns and the other three died of being weak when they breathed smoke.
While five of the six victims were identified, the body of a man at Nair Hospital had not been identified until Saturday night.
The police said the body was scorched beyond recognition and they had to do a family member DNA test to identify the man.
Five other dead people were identified as Hitesh Subodh Mistry, 40, Mausmi Subodh Mistry, 45, and Meena Subodh Mistry, 65, who lived in Flat No.
1904, Purshottam Chicdekar, 42, who lived on the 16th floor, and Manjuben Kantharia, and Manjuben, and Manjuben, other 19th floor residents.
Of the 24 injured, 17 people were still accepted at the hospital at the time of the press.
The suspected fire has spread through the power line through the length of the building, producing thick smoke throughout.
Flat No.
1904, where the fire exploded, broken hearted, along with the corridor.
While the building, which is a component of rehabilitation of the rebuilding project conducted by Kamala Group, received an occupation certificate in 2015, firefighting officials said the fire fighting equipment did not function, also did not have a mandatory bi-annual fire extinguisher audit.
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PM Modi expressed sadness over the incident and announced on Twitter that the Ex-Gratia 2 lakh would be given to family members from each of the deceased from the National Prime Minister’s assistance fund.
He added that the injured would be given 50,000 each.
Aaditya Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray, who visited the site, said the government would compensate 5 lakh for family members of each of the deceased.
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