High-rise horror: 7 killed, over 60 injured in Mumbai blaze

Mumbai: Seven people, including two minors, were killed and more than 60 injured after a fire swept through a residential building in Mumbai's Goregaon area in the early hours of Friday, a civic official said.

Five of the injured are in critical condition. Hours later, the city's fire brigade chief said the building had no firefighting system. As many as 30 residents were rescued from the terrace and various floors of the seven-storey structure, he said.

The blaze started around 3 am at ‘Jay Bhavani SRA building' near Azad Maidan at Unnat Nagar in Goregaon West, said an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). It had a lot of old clothes on the ground floor, they said.

Ravindra Ambulgekar, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, told PTI, “The Jay Bhavani SRA building in Goregaon was old and no firefighting system was available there.” (PTI)