Mumbai: Blaze guts Kandivali chawl, 7 critical; Kurla fire damages hutments

MUMBAI: Seven persons sustained terrible pain injuries aft a occurrence broke retired successful Ram Kisan Mestri Chawl, other ESIC Hospital successful Kandivali East astir 9am connected Tuesday. Officials fishy that a leak successful an LPG cylinder triggered the blaze wrong a ground-plus-one shop.The occurrence was doused wrong fractional an hour, but not earlier it near residents severely injured.

Four victims were admitted to ESIC Hospital, portion 3 others were rushed to Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital successful Kandivali earlier being shifted to Kasturba Hospital for specialised care.Those injured see Raksha Joshi (47) and Durga Gupta (30), who sustained 85–90% burns, Shivani Gandhi (51) and Janaki Gupta (39) with 70% burns, Poonam (28) with 90% burns, and Nitu Gupta (31) with 80% burns.In a abstracted incidental astir 12.15 pm, different occurrence broke retired successful Seva Nagar, Jarimari Road, Kurla West, spreading crossed 5–7 hutments. The occurrence brigade classified it arsenic a level 1 fire. No injuries person been reported from the Kurla blaze truthful far.