A fire broke out in a slum area of Shastri Nagar in Bihar's capital city Patna, as reported by news agency ANI. A video of the incident also surfaced on social media.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. In the visuals, people could be seen rushing out of the area to save their lives and the massive blaze continued to rage.
This comes after three truck drivers were charred to death as their vehicles collided and caught fire in Odisha's Jharsuguda district in the early hours of Thursday, news agency PTI reported police as informing.
The accident happened on National Highway 49 near Jharsuguda Sadar police station, they said.
The drivers of the three trucks could not come out of their vehicles after the collision, following which they were burnt alive, police said.
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Fire services personnel later doused the blaze. The victims were yet to be identified, they said.
In another road accident, a person was killed when a car and truck collided head-on near Bidanasi Square in Cuttack on Wednesday night, police said.
Two others were seriously injured in the accident. The injured were admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital, they said.
In an incident in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, property estimated to be worth lakhs of rupees was destroyed after a massive fire broke out at a market, news agency ANI reported officials as saying on Thursday. Fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze before it could spread, they said, adding no loss of life was reported.
"The fire broke out in more than half a dozen shops at a highway leading to Nandanagar in Nandprayag, Uttarakhand at around 4 am today," officials said, as quoted by ANI.
More details about the incident in Bihar are awaited.