Live! 6 killed in South Mumbai high-rise fire: NDTV
December 14, 2013  01:54

Six people were killed after a major fire broke out at the Mont Blanc building in South Mumbai's Kemps Corner area on Friday evening, a fire official said, NDTV reported.

 

Five people were rescued from the 12th floor of the building where the fire started, officials said. The floor was gutted in the blaze completely. It took fire engines three hours to douse the blaze."We were sitting in the garden at around 7 pm when the fire spread. Few people could come down and then the elevators stopped working. The cylinders that were in the passageway exploded and the fire spread. We called the fire fighters around 7:20 pm and the first fire engine arrived around 8:15 pm," said a woman who lives in the building, the report stated.

 

Two fire officials and four firemen were injured while trying to rescue the people; they have been moved to a hospital.

 

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