A fire broke out at a Lord Ganesh pandal in Pune where BJP president J P Nadda was offering prayers along with the party’s Maharashtra unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday evening.
Visuals from the scene showed Nadda being safely escorted out of the venue even as the fire engulfed the top portion of the makeshift pandal in the Lokmanya Nagar area in the heart of the city.
No casualty was reported in the incident.
A fire brigade official said the blaze may have been caused by fireworks at the pandal set up by the Sane Guruji Ganesh Mitra Mandal.
According to the authorities, the blaze broke out on Friday night at the factory in Pingtung county and raged overnight. Rescuers are looking for four factory workers and one firefighter as they are still missing.
Fire broke out at golf ball factory in southern Taiwan on Saturday X (Formerly Twitter)
In a tragic fire incident followed by a subsequent explosion, at least five people died at a golf ball factory in southern Taiwan while over hundred people were injured. It has been reported that five people are still missing as well.
About the incident
According to the authorities, the blaze broke out on Friday night at the factory in Pingtung county and raged overnight. Three firefighters were among the dead, authorities said.
Rescuers are looking for four factory workers and one firefighter as they are still missing, officials said.
What did the authorities say?
According to Taiwanese news outlet Focus Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen in a speech in Taipei on Saturday expressed her condolences to the families of the victims and said she would travel to Pingtung to visit those affected by the disaster,
It has been told that the Pingtung county government had set up an emergency operation center to offer assistance to those impacted by the fire.
Ten of some 66 people injured in fire and blast in Dagestan are in critical condition, according to Russian officials.
Firefighting vehicles at the scene of a fire and explosion at a petrol station in the city of Makhachkala, Russia, on August 14, 2023 [Russian Emergencies Ministry in the Republic of Dagestan/handout via Reuters]A fire and explosion at a petrol station in the southern Russian region of Dagestan has killed at least 25 people, including three children, and injured dozens, the Interfax news agency reported citing regional emergency medics.
The fire started at an auto repair shop on the roadside of a highway in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala, which is located on the Caspian Sea, on Monday night and caused blasts spreading to a nearby petrol station, officials said earlier on Tuesday.
“It’s like a war here,” a witness told the Reuters news agency.
The number of people injured rose to some 66, 10 of whom are in critical condition, RIA news agency said quoting Russian Deputy Health Minister Vladimir Fisenko. Thirteen of the wounded are children, Interfax reported citing the Dagestani health ministry.
An aircraft had been dispatched to Makhachkala to evacuate the seriously injured to Moscow, Russia’s emergency situations ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.
The explosion took place at 9:40pm (18:40 GMT) on Monday night, Sergei Melikov, head of the Dagestan administration, said on Telegram.
“The reasons and type of the explosion are being clarified,” he said.
Dagestan map (Al Jazeera)
A witness quoted on Telegram by the Russian daily Izvestia said the fire started in an area where cars were parked and spread to the petrol station.
“After the explosion, everything fell on our heads, we couldn’t see anything any more,” the unnamed witness was quoted as saying.
A video posted on Telegram by the RIA news agency showed flames rising from a building, followed by a huge explosion.
Three persons were killed and nine suffered burns after an unidentified person started a fire in a moving train at Kozhikode in Kerala late Sunday.
The incident took place on the Alappuzha – Kannur executive express train around 9.30 pm.
Three bodies, including that of a woman from Kannur district, a girl child aged around two and another person were found on the railway track. Eight who suffered burn injuries included women and children. Four of them suffered serious burns.
Some passengers in the train told a section of media that an unidentified person entered the D1 coach with two bottles of petrol-like liquid, poured it randomly on passengers and the train and set fire. As the fire spread, some passengers pulled the train’s chain and as the train stopped, the accused managed to escape. He was also suspected to have suffered burns. Passengers managed to put out the fire.
The passengers ran helter-skelter and it was suspected that the three died after jumping from the moving train. Their bodies were found by Monday early hours during a search on the track.
