Mumbai Fire Victims

Five people have died after a major fire broke out in a high-rise residential building this evening in Chembur, one of Mumbai's largest suburbs.

A week-old baby died early this morning, becoming the eleventh victim in the fire that broke out at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday.

Union Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar on Monday announced Rs 10 lakh each as compensation for the next of the kin of those who died in the massive fire at ESIC Hospital in Mumbai, a statement said.

The staccato bursts of gun fire, smoke plumes billowing out of the iconic Taj Mahal hotel, bullet-riddled bodies at local hospitals and cries of the victims' kin, still flash through Vijay Vaidya's mind. Ten years after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which claimed 166 lives and left over 300 injured, the 78-year-old senior journalist recalls the ...

When the anxious relatives reached Mumbai's KEM hospital, they were appalled to see numbers scribbled on the foreheads of the Elphinstone Road station stampede victims. Their photographs were also put up on a flex board by the hospital.

The death toll in Friday's fire at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited's refinery complex in Visakhapatnam rose to 18 with four more workers succumbing to their injuries today.

Three survivors of police firing on Saturday's riot were not even part of the Raza Academy meeting held in the Azad Maidan grounds. All three victims said they had come to the area for their own work and were caught in the middle.

Investigations into the murder of Borivli-based jeweller Nitin Dhakan have led cops to stumble upon a serial killer. While a third victim has been discovered, grieving relatives believe that many more murders masterminded and executed by the killer wait to be unearthed.

Of the 16 people, who sustained injuries in the major fire at Mantralaya yesterday, one Hemant Khaire, is said to be critical. He was admitted to the ICU at St George Hospital. Doctors said that his lungs were filled with excess carbon dioxide due to inhalation of smoke.

Both the victims, mother and unborn child, are battling for life at Sion Hospital. Momina Begum, 20, the mother, has suffered 90 per cent burns, and cops have notified her kin in Assam. Cops have registered a case of attempt to murder against the husband, Almin alias Sameer alias Saddam, who fled the spot after committing the crime.

Cops have arrested a 21-year-old in a gruesome case of revenge patricide. The accused, who bludgeoned his father at their Malwani residence to exact revenge, reportedly sat by his father's dead body for over an hour, before being discovered. According to Malwani police, the accused, identified as Irfan Shaikh, was unemployed. His father, the victim...

A call centre employee allegedly set his wife ablaze in Malwani on Tuesday night. She was eight-months pregnant. The victim, Sadhna Sonawane (26), has sustained 90 per cent burns and is reported to be in a critical condition.

A pregnant woman was set on fire allegedly by her husband at their residence in suburban Malwani after she refused to give him money for liquor, police said on Wednesday. The victim, identified as Sadhana Sonavane, sustained 90 per cent injuries and is fighting for life at the civic body- run Bhagwati hospital, they said.

A 36-year-old man was burnt alive allegedly by his three neighbours over a property dispute in suburban Versova, police said today. The accused Savio Anthony, Sayo Anthony and Sanjay Parab poured kerosene on the victim Rehmat Shah before setting him on fire at Sundarwadi area in Seven Bungalows area last night, they said.

"Give Kasab such a punishment that will quell the fire of hatred within us. And if there's a punishment worse than hanging, give him that." The words seem to be coming straight from the heart. And the speaker was someone who had survived the 26/11 terror attack.

Five people have died after a major fire broke out in a high-rise residential building this evening in Chembur, one of Mumbai's largest suburbs.

A week-old baby died early this morning, becoming the eleventh victim in the fire that broke out at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday.

Union Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar on Monday announced Rs 10 lakh each as compensation for the next of the kin of those who died in the massive fire at ESIC Hospital in Mumbai, a statement said.

The staccato bursts of gun fire, smoke plumes billowing out of the iconic Taj Mahal hotel, bullet-riddled bodies at local hospitals and cries of the victims' kin, still flash through Vijay Vaidya's mind. Ten years after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which claimed 166 lives and left over 300 injured, the 78-year-old senior journalist recalls the ...

When the anxious relatives reached Mumbai's KEM hospital, they were appalled to see numbers scribbled on the foreheads of the Elphinstone Road station stampede victims. Their photographs were also put up on a flex board by the hospital.

The death toll in Friday's fire at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited's refinery complex in Visakhapatnam rose to 18 with four more workers succumbing to their injuries today.

Three survivors of police firing on Saturday's riot were not even part of the Raza Academy meeting held in the Azad Maidan grounds. All three victims said they had come to the area for their own work and were caught in the middle.

Investigations into the murder of Borivli-based jeweller Nitin Dhakan have led cops to stumble upon a serial killer. While a third victim has been discovered, grieving relatives believe that many more murders masterminded and executed by the killer wait to be unearthed.

Of the 16 people, who sustained injuries in the major fire at Mantralaya yesterday, one Hemant Khaire, is said to be critical. He was admitted to the ICU at St George Hospital. Doctors said that his lungs were filled with excess carbon dioxide due to inhalation of smoke.

Both the victims, mother and unborn child, are battling for life at Sion Hospital. Momina Begum, 20, the mother, has suffered 90 per cent burns, and cops have notified her kin in Assam. Cops have registered a case of attempt to murder against the husband, Almin alias Sameer alias Saddam, who fled the spot after committing the crime.

Cops have arrested a 21-year-old in a gruesome case of revenge patricide. The accused, who bludgeoned his father at their Malwani residence to exact revenge, reportedly sat by his father's dead body for over an hour, before being discovered. According to Malwani police, the accused, identified as Irfan Shaikh, was unemployed. His father, the victim...

A call centre employee allegedly set his wife ablaze in Malwani on Tuesday night. She was eight-months pregnant. The victim, Sadhna Sonawane (26), has sustained 90 per cent burns and is reported to be in a critical condition.

A pregnant woman was set on fire allegedly by her husband at their residence in suburban Malwani after she refused to give him money for liquor, police said on Wednesday. The victim, identified as Sadhana Sonavane, sustained 90 per cent injuries and is fighting for life at the civic body- run Bhagwati hospital, they said.

A 36-year-old man was burnt alive allegedly by his three neighbours over a property dispute in suburban Versova, police said today. The accused Savio Anthony, Sayo Anthony and Sanjay Parab poured kerosene on the victim Rehmat Shah before setting him on fire at Sundarwadi area in Seven Bungalows area last night, they said.

"Give Kasab such a punishment that will quell the fire of hatred within us. And if there's a punishment worse than hanging, give him that." The words seem to be coming straight from the heart. And the speaker was someone who had survived the 26/11 terror attack.