Fire In Pune

An ex-Armyman opened fire on a man in the Ashok Nagar area of Pune district following a dispute over a parking space on Thursday, a police official said.

In another shocking incident in Pune, a drunken man allegedly poured petrol and attempted to set ablaze a woman traffic police officer who had stopped him during a drunk-and-drive combing operation, an official said here on Saturday.

An explosion took place in a scrap godown in the Kudal Wadi area of Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, officials said on Saturday.

A 34-year-old man suffered serious injuries after he set himself on fire outside a police outpost in Pune city of Maharashtra seeking immediate action on a complaint he has lodged, an official said.

A 52-year-old man fired at and injured a jewellery shop owner over a dispute outside a hotel in Pune city on Saturday evening before shooting himself dead in an autorickshaw, police said.

A gas cylinder blast destroyed a storage site near Symbiosis College in Pune today.

The fire took place at around 2:45pm on Friday in the factory at Talawade that makes sparkling candles used in birthday celebrations.

Candle Factory Fire: At least six persons died and eight sustained injuries after a fire broke out at a sparkling candle manufacturing unit in Pimpri Chinchwad area of Pune district on Friday, an official said.

The company has confirmed that the scooter's battery remains intact and functional.

Four people, including two minors, were killed after a truck caught fire following a collision in Maharashtra's Pune on Monday night, the police said.

Sixteen people took ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked at a civic-run swimming pool in Pimpri-Chinchwad area of Maharashtra's Pune district on Tuesday, a fire official said.

A fire broke out at a Lord Ganesh pandal in Pune where BJP president J P Nadda was offering prayers along with the party's Maharashtra unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday evening.

At least four members of a family, including a 10-year-old died after a fire broke out at an electric hardware shop in Shahunagar area of Pimpri Chinchwad city in Maharashtra's Pune district this morning.

One of the survivors of the ill-fated bus that caught fire and led to the death of 25 passengers in Maharashtra's Buldhana district today, said he and a few others managed to come out of the burning vehicle by breaking its rear window.

Twenty-five people died after a bus travelling from Maharashtra's Yavatmal to Pune caught fire in Buldhana on the Samruddhi Mahamarg Expressway.

An ex-Armyman opened fire on a man in the Ashok Nagar area of Pune district following a dispute over a parking space on Thursday, a police official said.

In another shocking incident in Pune, a drunken man allegedly poured petrol and attempted to set ablaze a woman traffic police officer who had stopped him during a drunk-and-drive combing operation, an official said here on Saturday.

An explosion took place in a scrap godown in the Kudal Wadi area of Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, officials said on Saturday.

A 34-year-old man suffered serious injuries after he set himself on fire outside a police outpost in Pune city of Maharashtra seeking immediate action on a complaint he has lodged, an official said.

A 52-year-old man fired at and injured a jewellery shop owner over a dispute outside a hotel in Pune city on Saturday evening before shooting himself dead in an autorickshaw, police said.

A gas cylinder blast destroyed a storage site near Symbiosis College in Pune today.

The fire took place at around 2:45pm on Friday in the factory at Talawade that makes sparkling candles used in birthday celebrations.

Candle Factory Fire: At least six persons died and eight sustained injuries after a fire broke out at a sparkling candle manufacturing unit in Pimpri Chinchwad area of Pune district on Friday, an official said.

The company has confirmed that the scooter's battery remains intact and functional.

Four people, including two minors, were killed after a truck caught fire following a collision in Maharashtra's Pune on Monday night, the police said.

Sixteen people took ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked at a civic-run swimming pool in Pimpri-Chinchwad area of Maharashtra's Pune district on Tuesday, a fire official said.

A fire broke out at a Lord Ganesh pandal in Pune where BJP president J P Nadda was offering prayers along with the party's Maharashtra unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday evening.

At least four members of a family, including a 10-year-old died after a fire broke out at an electric hardware shop in Shahunagar area of Pimpri Chinchwad city in Maharashtra's Pune district this morning.

One of the survivors of the ill-fated bus that caught fire and led to the death of 25 passengers in Maharashtra's Buldhana district today, said he and a few others managed to come out of the burning vehicle by breaking its rear window.

Twenty-five people died after a bus travelling from Maharashtra's Yavatmal to Pune caught fire in Buldhana on the Samruddhi Mahamarg Expressway.