Four of a family people have lost their lives in a massive fire at a electronics and hardware store at Purnanagar area of Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra’s Pune. The fire took broke out in the wee hours of Wednesday due to short circuit.
VIDEO | Several people dead in a fire that broke out due to short circuit in an electronics and hardware store in Pune in the wee hours of Wednesday. More details are awaited. (Source: Third Party) pic.twitter.com/d3TzvpFhqm
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“A fire broke out on the ground floor of a residential building around 5 am today. We can confirm four deaths in the incident,” an official of the Fire Department of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation said, while speaking to news agency ANI. Officials said that the shop was completely gutted in the fire.
“So far, bodies of four people, who were sleeping on the mezzanine of the hardware shop located on the building’s ground floor, have been recovered, a fire official from the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation said.
The blaze has been extinguished and cooling process is on, he said.
Officials said a short-circuit may have caused the fire. However, an investigation is on, they added.
The deceased have been identified as Chimnaram Chowdhary (48), Namrata Chimnaram Chowdhary (40), Bhavesh Chowdhary (15) and Sachin Choudhary (13), the officials said.
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