Mumbai: Two women were killed and two other persons suffered from suffocation after a fire broke out in an 11-floor building in Mumbai on Sunday morning. The blaze erupted in Panna Ali Mansion building, located in Masjid Bandar area of south Mumbai.
The fire was confined to the electric wiring and installations at a common meter box place and electric wiring in the common passage on the ground floor of the building. Two women in the common passage of the first floor sustained injuries to their hands and legs and also got suffocated due to smoke after the fire.
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Both of them, identified as Sabila Khatun Shaikh (42) and Sajiya Alam Sheikh (30), were taken to hospital where they were declared dead. A man on the building’s sixth floor and a woman on the eighth floor also suffered from suffocation.
The cause of the fire was not yet known.
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