Mumbai Fire News: Three people, including a woman and a minor boy, died after a fire broke out in a residential structure at Bhagat Singh Nagar in Goregaon West early Friday. The fire was reported at around 3:06 a.m. in a ground-plus-one-floor building near Janata Stores on Rajaram Lane. According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade, the blaze was confined to electric wiring, household items on the ground floor and clothes belonging to the victims on the first floor.
Local residents attempted to douse the fire using water buckets before firefighters arrived. Fire personnel later extinguished the blaze after cutting off the electricity supply. The fire was brought under control by 3:16 a.m., officials said.
Firefighters rescued three people from the building and rushed them to Trauma Care Hospital in a police van and a private vehicle. Doctors declared all three dead on arrival, police said.
The deceased were identified as Harshada Pawaskar, 19, Kushal Pawaskar, 12, and Sanjog Pawaskar, 48. Hospital authorities said all three had suffered burn injuries.