In March, he had said that China is responsible for the spread of the novel coronavirus and called the COVID-19 as the "Chinese Virus".
A major fire broke out in area near Manish market and Crawford market in Mumbai late on Saturday morning. TV reports show many shops have been gutted. No casualties have been reported yet.
Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were roped in to rescue hundreds of stranded people, they said.
Thousands of firemen, NDRF and IAF personnel along with forest officials are working together to douse the flames.
The fire broke out at around 7.30 am in the godown and spread in other rooms on the ground floor, he said.
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner stated that two civilians, as well as two firefighters, were among the ones who lost their lives in the blast.
At least 28 people have been killed and dozens more feared dead in a fire that blazed through a slipper factory in Sitio Gitna, Barangay Ugong in Valenzuela City on Wednesday.
Fire is still raging at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited gas well near Olpad town in the district
Five people have received burn injuries and are admitted in Holy Spirit hospital.
Australian captain Tim Paine and Nathan Lyon visited Wingello, a town of about 500 people in hard-hit New South Wales, on Wednesday, days after it was devastated by the flames.
The unauthorised building was occupied at least up to the fourth floor and many are feared dead in the mishap
According to students, police laid seige to the campus and those injured were not even allowed to get medical attention.
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"An inquiry is underway to establish the cause of the fire," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement.
A fire broke out in a cloth godown in the commercial area of Burrabazar in the city on Thursday morning.
The fire, suspected to have originated in the electrical department in the basement of the AMRI hospital, swiftly spread to the first and second floors, trapping patients, with the fire brigade called in at 4:00 am, the sources said.
No members of the Trump family were at the tower during the fire.
The incident has resulted in an almost kilometer-long traffic jam on both sides of the SV/LJ Road.
After nearly 59 persons were hospitalised following the leakage of chlorine gas from a cylinder at the Mumbai Port Trust early on Wednesday morning, the government has sought the help of experts to prevent any further incident of this kind.
At least 21 people were injured and over 2,000 people, including 'Slumdog Millionaire' child actor Rubina Ali, rendered homeless in the big fire which was controlled in the wee hours on Saturday in Bandra, Mumbai.
The bombing is the deadliest in Iraq since Iraqi security forces last month dislodged Islamic State terrorists from Falluja, the IS stronghold just west of Baghdad that had served as a launch pad for such terror attacks.
A massive fire broke out in an old multi-storeyed building on the busy Park street area in Kolkata on Tuesday, injuring several people and leaving scores trapped. Four people were killed in the fire.
The house located in Tandel Mohalla of the town came crashing down at around 5 am when its occupants, all members of one family, were asleep, the police said.
A terrible fire engulfed the prestigious Stephen's House building near Park Street in the heart of Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon.
Conspicuous by his silence when terror ripped the city apart, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader finally went out and thanked the firemen who doused the fire at the iconic Taj Hotel on that fateful night.
Today, the worry is that a change in incentives against saving may tip the balance in favour of those who don't save.
According to reports, the Hercules C-130 plane hit a hotel and houses in the northern Sumatra city of Medan.
In a heart-warming gesture, the Cricket Board on Monday donated Rs three crore for the security personnel who either lost life or sustained injuries during last month's terror attacks in Mumbai.
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The extent of the damage and the cause of the fire at A-Z Shopping Centre in Lal Chowk are not known yet.
A fire at a shopping mall selling garments left 11 persons dead and 18 injured at Sodepur in neighbouring North 24-Parganas district, close to Kolkata, on Friday
Policia Judiciaria Nacional director Almeida Rodrigues ruled out arson. He said: "The PJ, together with the GNR police force, have managed to establish the origin of the fire and it's all clearly pointing towards natural causes.
Though no peripheral burning is taking place at the moment at the well's site at Baghjan, the company has declared an area up to 1.5 km radius as "red zone" to avoid any untoward incident and harm to the general public.
The blaze, an army spokesman here said was caused by an accidental fire inside the field ordinance depot.
The pink city of Jaipur, which turned red on Tuesday evening as eight serial bomb blasts ripped through the city, wore a deserted look on Wednesday. Instead of the usual hustle-bustle of traffic and tourists on the roads, khaki-clad men and firemen, engaged in taking the blood stains off the road, were seen at work. Even though curfew has been imposed in just 15 police stations areas in the district, the entire city bore an eerie silence.
The building is feted as one of India's oldest Victorian-era cast iron structures.
The massive fire that broke out on the 12th floor of high-rise building in the upmarket Kemps corner area in South Mumbai has claimed the lives of seven residents, fire officials said.
The fire broke out at 6.45 am and five fire tenders from Panvel and Kalamboli have been rushed, the sources said.
