08 January,2024 05:51 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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A massive fire broke out at a warehouse in Uran area of Raigad district in Maharashtra, the officials said on on Monday, reported the ANI.
Following the information regarding the blaze, the fire brigade officials along with fire tenders rushed to the and launched a firefighting operation.
A dousing operation is underway, the officials said, the ANI reported.
Further details are awaited.
Meanwhile, a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus on Monday caught fire in Latur district of Maharashtra. No casualties were reported in the incident, police said on Monday, reported the PTI.
The state transport bus was parked on the side of a road and suddenly caught fire, the news agency reported.
According to the PTI, the blaze erupted on a MSRTC bus near Omardara village in Jalkoat tehsil on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, an official said.
The bus was heading to Omarda village from Udgir when it broke down on the way and was parked on the side of the road, he said.
The official said the driver and conductor were asleep inside the bus when the fire broke out around 1.30 am, and they escaped unhurt.
A fire engine was pressed into service to douse the flames, he said, adding that the incident is being probed.
In an another incident, last week, a fire erupted in some shops located in a slum area in Govandi suburb of Mumbai on Tuesday. Nobody was injured in the incident as per the preliminary information and efforts are underway to douse flames, newswire PTI reported quoting officials.
"The blaze erupted at around 3 pm in four to five shops on the ground floor of a structure in a slum area in Zakir Hussain Nagar. It is mainly confined to electric wiring, electric installation, stock of scrap material and cardboard papers etc.," a civic official said.
At least four fire engines and other vehicles of Mumbai Fire Brigade are at the spot and fire fighting operation was underway, he added. The cause behind the blaze cannot be known immediately.
(with ANI and PTI inputs)
