Initial assessments suggest that a short circuit might have been the cause of the fire." However, a thorough investigation is underway," officials said.
"At about 11:10 am, in a pharmaceutical lab, when a solvent was being loaded into a container, some short circuit occurred and the solvent exploded. There were 35 people working, and 7 were injured. The injured have been shifted to the hospital," ASP PSN Rao, Anakapalli told ANI.
According to officials, the fire broke out on the first floor of the play school building, and was suspected to have been caused by an electrical short circuit. All the children were evacuated on time, and no casualty or injury to anyone was reported.
A massive fire incident had occurred at Satpura Bhawan (state government office) on last Monday (June 12). Initially, the fire broke out at the third floor of the building but later it spread out up to the sixth floor. On getting the information about the incident fire tenders rushed to the
Congress MLA Jitu Patwari wrote over Twitter, "This is our health directorate. It is operated from the Satpura Bhawan in the state capital Bhopal. Today it caught fire again."
CM Chouhan is also continuously monitoring the extinguishing of fire at the building. Initially, the fire broke out at the third floor of the building where there is a tribal department office but later it spread up to the sixth floor of the building.
On being asked about the reason behind the fire, Kumar said, "We understand that there was a short-circuit. Since there was nobody on the ground floor and the door was closed." Currently, the dowsing operation is underway.
A fire broke out in a residential building in the Subhash Nagar area of the national capital on Tuesday morning due to a short circuit, said a fire official.
A massive fire broke out in the Bank of India (BOI) at the Nagjhiri area of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh due to a suspected short circuit on Sunday, police said.