Fire breaks out in 55-storey under-construction building in Mumbai

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A fire broke out on the seventh floor of an under-construction high-rise in Prabhadevi area of central Mumbai on Monday, an official said.

No casualties were reported in the blaze that erupted in the 55-storey India Bulls Sky Forest building on Senapati Bapat Marg around 8.40 pm, he said.

The fire brigade was pressed into service and the blaze was extinguished around 9.10 pm, he said.

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The exact cause for the fire is yet to be ascertained, the official added.

Meanwhile, a 16-year-old girl has gone missing after she allegedly left her house in Maharashtra's Thane district in anger at her brother snatching away her mobile phone, a police official said on Monday.

A kidnapping case has been registered on the complaint of her kin on Sunday as the girl is a minor, the Badlapur East police station official said.

"The Class VIII student lived with her two brothers in Mankivli. One of her brothers snatched her mobile phone on Saturday afternoon after he spotted her talking to some unidentified person. Two hours later, she went missing from the house," he said.

Efforts are on to trace the girl and reunite her with her family, the official said.

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