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Building fire kills 27 in New Delhi, police arrest company owners

NEW DELHI, May 14 – Police in New Delhi arrested two people suspected of flouting fire safety regulations on Saturday after at least 27 people died in a blaze at a building housing a manufacturing unit for surveillance cameras. Rescue teams worked overnight to clear the burnt out […]

Fire put out at Iranian petrochemicals plant – reports

DUBAI, Aug 10 – A fire broke out at a storage tank in a petrochemicals plant on Iran’s Gulf island of Kharg on Tuesday, but the blaze was brought under control and there were no casualties, the Iranian oil ministry’s SHANA news agency reported. “Fortunately, this accident did […]

Fire breaks out in house, 5 killed

Lucknow :  Five members of a family, including a six-month-old girl, died when a fire broke out in a house in Indira Nagar locality here Wednesday, police said. The fire broke out at about 6 am when small cooking gas cylinders caught fire in the house in Ram Vihar […]

Two minors dead as fire breaks out in hut

Kaushami (UP) :  Two sons of a labourer were killed and five other family members sustained injuries when his hut caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday at a village here, police said. Dinanath, a labourer working at a brick kiln, used to live in the hut in […]

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