Mumbai: Fire in Bandra slum destroys 25 tenements

Nearly 25 tenements were destroyed after a fire swept a slum pocket in Bandra on Tuesday, the second such incident in the past month. Three people, including a fireman sustained burns due to the blaze, said officials.

Fire officials were alerted at 10.30 am about the mishap at Shastri Nagar adjoining the Bandra railway station. 

Authorities pressed seven fire tenders and it was hosed down around 1.15 pm, said the Mumbai Fire Brigade. Local services were not disrupted, said railway officials.

“Some furniture, electrical wires, household articles, clothes were also charred,” said a fire official, adding that it was a Level II fire on their 5-tier grading system. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, they said.

Of the three injured, two were identified as Akbar Shaikha, 50, and Asif Mansuri, 35. The two were admitted to civic-run Bhabha Hospital, where doctors said they were in a stable condition.

On October 30, a series of cooking gas cylinder explosions had triggered a fire at Nargis Dutt Nagar in the suburb, leaving four injured. 

As per official data, over 49,000 fires were reported in Mumbai in the past decade. The numbers include 3,151 fires in slums.