60-Year-Old Man Killed In Mumbai High-Rise Fire

Though the fire was brought under control in half an hour, a resident of the building in Mumbai's Hindu Colony died of suffocation.

A 60-year-old man died of suffocation after a fire broke out in a 15-storey residential building in Mumbai's Dadar area on Saturday morning, a fire official said.

The fire started in flat number 1302 on the 13th floor of the Raintree building at Hindu Colony around 8.30 am. The apartment was stuffed with household materials and locked, the official said.

Though the fire was brought under control in half an hour, a resident of the building, Sachin Patkar, became unconscious due to the smoke, the official said.