The fire broke out during night in a 9-storey building, home to about 150 residents, according to official Vietnam News Agency, which said the blaze was contained by 2am (1900 GMT).
PARIS (Reuters) -Nine bodies were found in the smouldering ruins of a holiday home housing disabled people that caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday in eastern France, a chief firefighter said.
Due to renovation work underway at Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmedabad's Sahibaug area, several items stored in the basement caught fire and caused massive smoke, a fire official said.
The fire broke out Monday afternoon at a private firm, Kaixinda Trading, the state media reported. Two people have been sent to the hospital for treatment and two others are missing.
Eight of the deceased were Indian nationals while one person was from Bangladesh, AVAS reported. The nationalities of two other victims remain unknown so far.
The fire emanated from the e-bike showroom and quickly leapt up to its upper floors where a hotel is located. According to police, the showroom was being run illegally.
15 fire tenders & 13 ambulances rushed to the Lucknow hotel. The ten injured were taken to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Civil Hospital. UP CM Adityanath has ordered a probe into the matter.
It's ironic that the State should storm into action, arm itself with bulldozers, and bring down people's homes but does not even inspect buildings that could be a fire hazard.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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