New Delhi: A massive fire broke out in a transformer that spread to an adjacent plastic godown in Kolkata’s Topsia on Friday, news agency ANI reported. According to the report, four fire tenders have been rushed to the spot and many labourers are feared to be trapped. No casualty has been reported.
This comes a day after at least 21 people, including a child, were injured when an LPG cylinder exploded and the leaking gas sparked a fire on the ground floor of a two-storey building on Bichali Ghat Road in southwest Kolkata’s Garden Reach.
According to reports, the fire started in the kitchen when some members of the family were cooking.
According to police, the locality was crowded and the flames spread to a row of shops adjoining the house, leaving several people with burns.
Most of the injured were admitted to SSKM Hospital. Two of them are in critical condition, police said.
“Many more were injured than what we have come to know because several with burns fled the spot,” The Telegraph quoted a police officer as saying.
“The condition of some of the injured persons is critical because of the degree of burns they have suffered,” a senior doctor of SSKM Hospital’s Trauma Care Centre said.
Earlier in the day, a major fire broke out in dried grass at the edge of Chilika Lake in Odisha, news agency PTI reported.
The fire was extinguished by rain after a few hours, a forest department official said.
“Some miscreants might have set afire the Nala grass which dries in the summer,” said Amlan Nayak, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Chilika Wildlife Division.
“Our staff tried their best to douse the fire but it was virtually inaccessible. Finally, rain helped us extinguish the blaze,” he added.