Mumbai fire: Maimoon residential building blaze kills four

As many as four people of a family including two children were killed in a fire that broke out at Maimoon residential building in Mumbai's suburban Marol Church Road area. The fire broke in early hours today, said police. The deaths reportedly happened due to suffocation.

A total of nine people were also injured in the accident.

The deceased has been identified as Sakina Kapasi, Mohin Kapasi, Tasleem Kapasi and Dawood Kapasi.



The fire broke out around 2 am and the fire brigade unit reached at the spot at 2.34 am.

"Mumbai Fire Brigade got a call at 2.10 am about the fire at the fourth floor of Ground plus Mamoon Manzil building at Marol in Andheri East," said PTI quoting an official from Disaster Management Unit of BMC.

Seven people have been rescued by the fire brigade team so far. It took fire brigade officials around 45 minutes to douse the fire.

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.

An investigation has been initiated into the incident.

The incident comes on the back of the Kamala Mills compound fire incident, in which 14 people were killed in Lower Parel area on December 29.

(With PTI/ANi inputs)