With Doctors, PM Modi Visits Kollam, Where Temple Fire Killed Over 100

Hours after a massive fire broke out at a temple in Kerala's Kollam on Sunday -- in which 106 people died and more than 350 were injured -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the spot with a team of 15 doctors from Delhi.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and state Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala took the Prime minister around the temple precincts and briefed him on the incident. Later, PM Modi visited the district hospital and met the injured.

Calling the incident "very unfortunate," the Prime Minister said, "I told the CM that if the injured need to be shifted to Delhi, Mumbai, the Centre will help them."

The massive fire had broken out during a fireworks display at the Puttingal temple around 3 am during an all-night fireworks display that had been banned by the state government. The grounds, next to the temple, had been packed with around 15,000 people. (Pictures)
 

PM Modi was received by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Kollam.

Some of the fireworks were left unexploded.

The fire broke out in the ground next to the temple. (Reuters photo)