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Bathinda: Two minor sisters were killed and several others injured when around 20 huts caught fire in an Oriya slum here on Tuesday.Fire engines were pressed into service and it took them about three hours to control the fire, he said.Police said that Meera (7) and her five-year-old sister...

Bathinda (Punjab) [India]: Two children were killed and another seriously injured in a fire that followed a domestic gas cylinder explosion at a slum in Punjab's Bathinda early Tuesday, officials said. According to Bathinda Municipal Corporation Commissioner Rahul, two children aged six and...

Thane (Maharashtra) [India]: A fire broke out in a slum in Navi Mumbai's Belapur area on Monday, an official said. The official said that fire tenders were sent to the spot to control the fire. According to preliminary information, the fire occurred due to an explosion in a cylinder while...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], A fire broke out in a slum on Jessore Road in Kolkata on Saturday, destroying several huts. Officials said nine fire tenders were at the spot to douse the fire. In the visuals of the incident, a thick plume of smoke is seen coming out of the slums surrounded by...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Panic spread among slum residents in Govin Nagar, Ghatkopar (West) of Mumbai after a landslide in the area on Friday night. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the landslide occurred at 9.14 pm on April 1. 12 Officials at Himalaya Society in...