Property owner booked after fire accident kills two
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Property owner booked after fire accident kills two
The sofa manufacturing unit housed on one end of a colony in Venkateswara Nagar of Jiyaguda turned black after an eight-hour-long fire-fighting operation. Burnt two-wheelers, burnt equipment and furniture was seen all around.
A father-daughter duo were killed in the blaze in the four-storied manufacturing warehouse-cum-residential building. “The incident left six others severely injured including Shivapriya’s mother Nagarani, 30, and her five-year-old sister Arani, who are currently undergoing treatment in Osmania General Hospital,” said Kulsumpura Inspector T. Ashok Kumar.
According to area residents, workers, mostly natives of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, stayed in the residential portions. Sreenivasa was among the oldest workers in the unit.
Over 20 people trapped on the second and third floors of the building were rescued. Officials from the Clues Team, Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Department of Electrical Inspectorate, Industries Department - along with the police - had a close look at the building.
The owner of the property, identified as Dhananjay Bansal, was booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and further investigation is underway.
Fire Department officials suspect short circuit as the cause of fire. “The fire gained momentum with rexine and wood stored there. We moved the material out of the place to prevent the blaze from spreading further,” said Hyderabad District Fire Officer Ashok. The same material stored in the rear portion of the building led the fire to spread quickly.
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