MUMBAI: In a tragic incident 62 people were injured and seven lives, including two minors were lost during the early hours of Friday when a blaze engulfed the seven storey Jay Bhawani building -a residential high-rise, around 3 am in Mumbai.
The building did not have a functional fire fighting system in place.
The Slum Rehabilitation building was constructed in the year 2008 in place of a slum also called Jay Bhavani. The sale component of the building known as Samarth Shrushti building was also damaged in the incident however no one was injured from this highrise. BMC commissioner IS Chahal said that none of the seven deaths were owing to fire but instead due to suffocation. "A committee will be formed to study how such disasters can be prevented in future," said Chahal.
