A private bus caught fire on the Pune-Solapur highway near Kadambagh in the Hadapsar area of Pune city on Friday said officials of the Pune Fire Department.
Visuals show the officials of the Pune Fire Brigade conducting rescue and relief work in the city that has been submerged in above knee-level rainwater after being pounded by heavy showers.
The watchman of the building who was sleeping on the ground floor was charred to death in the fire incident that took place on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
A fire broke out at a grocery shop on the ground floor of a three-storey building in the Raviwar Peth area of Pune City on Monday morning, said officials.
As per the information received from the Pune fire department, five fire tenders have reached the spot and initiated efforts to bring the situation under control.