Tamil Nadu: Fire breaks out at Saravana Stores in Madurai; customers, employees evacuated

Tamil Nadu: A fire breaks out at the Saravana Stores in Madurai on Wednesday. All the customers and employees were evacuated, officials informed.

District corporation commissioner and police officals are present at the spot, they said. 

 Earlier in the day, a 4-storey building in Delhi collapsed after it catched fire on Roshnara Road near Pul Bangash metro station.

North Delhi DCP SS Kalsi said, "there was a PCR call at around noon today regarding a fire that broke out at Jaipur Golden transport firm at Roshanara Road. There is no loss of life so far although 4 storey building has collapsed. Reason for the fire will be known after investigation."

Later in the day, a fire broke out at an apartment complex in Nagerbazar area on the northern fringes of Kolkata on Wednesday, a fire official said.

The blaze erupted on the 15th floor of the building around 3 pm, he said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.

Six fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames and residents of adjoining flats in the building were evacuated as a precautionary measure.

"The fire broke out in a flat where interior work was underway. Our firefighters doused it within an hour," an official said, adding an investigation was underway to find out the cause of the blaze.

Five people working at the flat were detained for questioning, a police officer said.

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