Thane: Luxury car gutted in fire, two occupants escape unhurt

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Two persons travelling in a high-end car had a narrow escape when their vehicle caught fire and was completely gutted in Thane city of Maharashtra on Saturday morning, a civic official told news agency PTI.

The incident took place around 7.15 am in Manpada area of the city, he said.

"The car was approaching the lobby area of a building when it caught fire suddenly. Two occupants of the vehicle managed to jump out of it in time," Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) told PTI.

Both of them are safe, he said.

After being alerted, the fire brigade and RDMC personnel rushed to the spot and the fire was doused. "But the car got reduced to ashes by that time," he told PTI.

The cause of the fire is being investigated, the official said.

Meanwhile, six people including a four-year-old girl were injured after an autorickshaw they were travelling in overturned in Maharashtra's Thane city on Friday, The Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) said.

In a statement, the RDMC said that the accident took place near Saket Road in Thane at around 12.45 pm when the three-wheeler was heading to Thane railway station from Bhiwandi.

The driver of the autorikshaw felt giddy and lost control of the vehicle. It led to vehicle's overturning causing the accident, the officials said.

Six persons, including the driver, sustained injuries in the accident. They were rushed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, Thane where they have been undergoing medical treatment, the officials said.

In another incident, two persons were killed and six others injured when the slab of a 20-year-old residential building collapsed in Nerul area of Navi Mumbai, fire brigade officials said on Thursday, reported the PTI.

The third floor ceiling slab of the four-storey Tulsi Bhavan building located at Shirsole in Nerul collapsed at around 8.50 pm on Wednesday, they said.

The slab came crashing down on the second and first floors, killing a labourer and another person, divisional fire officer Purushottam Jadhav told PTI.

The building has four wings and the slab collapsed in its 'B' wing, he said.

Some civil work was underway on the third floor when the slab collapsed, said another fire official.

The building has a tailoring shop on the ground floor and the shopkeeper closed the outlet and left the place a few minutes before the incident, he said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a local hospital, he said.

The building has been evacuated and the occupants currently lodged at the Ahilyabai Holkar Samaj Mandir hall in Nerul, the official said.

After being alerted, fire engines from Nerul and Vashi along with the disaster management team rushed to the spot and carried out rescue operations and later cleared the debris.

(With inputs from PTI)