1 dead after jumping from 19th floor to escape Mumbai fire

NEW DELHI — At slightest 1 idiosyncratic died aft jumping from the 19th level to flight a occurrence that engulfed a 61-story luxury flat gathering successful Mumbai successful occidental India connected Friday, a occurrence authoritative said.

Fifteen radical were rescued, occurrence serviceman Pardhi said.

The occurrence has been brought nether control, but the rescue enactment was continuing, said Pardhi, who uses 1 name.

Television images showed dense achromatic fume billowing into the entity from the 19th level flat connected Curry Road successful southbound Mumbai, India’s fiscal and amusement capital.

The origin of the occurrence was not instantly known, Pardhi said.

He said 16 occurrence engines and 8 h2o tankers were deployed to extinguish the blaze.

Kailash Aggarwal, the gathering owner, said determination are 400 apartments successful the gathering and each residents were accounted for.

Fires are communal successful India, wherever gathering laws and information norms are often flouted by builders and residents.

In August, a occurrence killed 8 coronavirus patients astatine a infirmary successful Ahmedabad, a cardinal metropolis successful Gujarat state. In December 2018, a late-night occurrence successful a Mumbai edifice killed 15 people.