With yet another victim succumbing to burn injuries at a city hospital on Wednesday, the death toll in last month's fire at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's complex has risen to 27.
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Three persons were killed on Wednesday and another injured after a major fire broke out at the Bombay House building, housing the Tata Group offices in South Mumbai.
35-year-old K Mohanan, a native of Kozhikode in Kerala, had poured kerosene on his body and set himself on fire outside Gate No 4 of Parliament House near Vijay Chowk on Thursday evening.
A man injured in the July 13 serial blasts in Mumbai died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment in a government hospital, taking the death toll in the blasts to 20. "Ashok Bhata, 45, who sustained burn injuries at the Zaveri Bazaar blast site, today died at approximately 11.15 am," said T P Lahane, Dean of J J Hospital. Another doctor at the hospital said, "Since Monday, his condition deteriorated and he breathed his last on Tuesday morning".
The student jumped into the leaping flames bringing out the victims one after another and thus saved seven lives. But after his eighth bid, he was not seen coming out and was presumed dead.
An Indian man, who said he was attacked and set ablaze by assailants in Melbourne, had falsely reported the incident for claiming insurance, Australian police alleged on Wednesday. Police had obtained security footage depicting Singh buying a 15-litre opaque plastic container and 15.96 litres of petrol on the day before the attack.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Datta granted four weeks to the Delhi government counsel to file a further status report in the matter and listed it for hearing on May 4.
The fire broke out at 6.45 am and five fire tenders from Panvel and Kalamboli have been rushed, the sources said.
The accident occurred around 11.25 am at Visakhapatnam Port Trust's Single Point Mooring Terminal, where crude and oil supplies are handled.
Police found materials that go into making bomb from the rented house in Mysuru of Mangaluru autorickshaw blast accused Mohammed Shariq, who was 'influenced and inspired' by a global terrorist organisation, a senior police officer said on Monday.
Four people were killed and 46 others injured in an explosion triggered by a fire inside the Reliance-owned Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited plant in Raigad district's Nagothane town.
Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to blow up a US airliner as he was arraigned before a Michigan court.
Twelve people were killed and several got burn injuries in lightning and thunderstorm incidents in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra and Jaunpur districts since Thursday, police said. A boy died and three others were injured in a lightning strike in Sanand village in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district as unseasonal rains disrupted normal life in north and central parts of the state.
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Anti-CAB protests intensify in Guwahati even as the PM appealed for calm, assuring the people of the state that the govt will protect their interests.
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Fifteen persons, including three children were killed in a major fire at a cracker factory in Badnagar town in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on Saturday, police said.
A South African Indian woman is in a critical condition in hospital and her former boyfriend in jail after he allegedly set her on fire.
A law student was injured in an acid attack by unidentified car-borne youths outside her college in Nowshehra area of the city, police said on Thursday.
Nigerian terror-suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was on Monday discharged from a Detroit hospital where he was being treated for burn injuries, which he sustained in his failed attempt to blow up a US plane mid-air on Friday.
Police said the wicketkeeper-batsman, who was alone in the car when it crashed in the northern state of Uttarakhand, had lost control of the vehicle when he "dozed off".
At least 82 people, mostly women workers, were killed and many suffered burn injuries in a fire that devastated a textile mill in Bangladesh's southeastern port city of Chittagong, police and witnesses said.
Five people have received burn injuries and are admitted in Holy Spirit hospital.
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Terror group People's Anti-Fascist Front claimed responsibility for his murder.
In an unprecedented incident, a protestor from the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity, a peasants' group led by Right To Information activist Akhil Gogoi, died after setting himself ablaze in front of the high-security state secretariat complex in Guwahati on Monday.
The Kashmir Valley on Tuesday remained cut off from the rest of the country even as incessant rains, accompanied by lightning, hailstorm and heavy snowfall lashed several parts of northern India, claiming at least 48 lives since Sunday.
Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire was brought under control within two hours. The police and fire department have denied reports of any deaths resulting from the fire.
Four persons including a Manipur police commando and a teenager were killed in Kangvai area of Bishnupur district in clashes between the two warring communities in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, officials said.
Ashok Kalyanjee, the father of six-year-old Paul and two-year-old Jay who were discovered in a blood-spattered car on Saturday, is in a critical condition after he suffered burn injuries while allegedly trying to set afire the vehicle. Police said they were waiting to interview Kalyanjee, 40, who is under police guard at a hospital in Glasgow.
They also damaged furniture at the residence of the executive engineer of the state electricity board.
While the TN Government Railway Police sleuths are questioning five passengers, the commissioner of railway safety commenced inquiry over the mishap in Madurai.
Those who were held guilty included Safdar Nagori, Javed Ahmed and Atikur Rehman. Among those acquitted were Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed.
The police doused the flames but three of the youth received serious burn injuries, official sources said
A 24-year-old girl suffered serious burn injuries when two motorcycle-borne unidentified youth threw acid at her in the posh Hazratganj locality in Lucknow, the police said on Wednesday.
Mohammed Zakir's ordeal is not over yet. He is without work after one of his hands got badly damaged in the blasts and the compensation towards the death of his parents is eluding him.
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party leader Supriya Sule expressed grief over the woman's demise.
