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NEW DELHI: Four people, including a man and his sister, died after a massive fire engulfed a four-storey residential building in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar on Saturday evening. The blaze spread rapidly through the structure, leaving residents trapped inside with little chance to escape. In a desperate attempt to save herself, one woman jumped from…
At least 36 people were killed and more than 250 remain unaccounted for after a massive fire swept through a high rise housing estate in Hong Kong, prompting an overnight rescue operation and urgent appeals for accountability from city authorities.Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee confirmed the rising toll early Thursday (local time), saying search…
At least four people died and several others remained trapped after a massive fire swept through multiple high-rise towers at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday, the city government and fire services department said, according to Reuters.Firefighters continued operations into the evening as thick black smoke poured out of the…
NEW DELHI: As a grey blanket of smog smothered the city and Delhiites struggled to breathe, air pollution data went missing for a major portion of Monday. Since 1 pm, neither hourly air quality index (AQI) updates nor the city’s daily average had been released till late evening, even as the air visibly worsened since…
INDORE: Congress leader and owner of a Mahindra showroom in the Lasudia area, Pravesh Agrawal, died of asphyxiation after a massive fire broke out at his penthouse on Thursday morning. His wife, Shweta Agrawal, and their younger daughter were admitted to hospital for treatment. The incident occurred around 5 am when the family, including Agrawal,…
A massive blaze gutted the beachfront home of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein on Saturday morning, leaving her ex-senator husband, Arnold Goodstein, and two other family members hospitalized. Goodstein’s four-bedroom, four-bath $1,155,200 home, stretching up a three-story property on Edisto Beach, was engulfed in flames around 11.30 am as stunned neighbors looked on….
