Pune eatery fire: Two workers killed

Authorities in Pune on Tuesday said that two workers died and one sustained injuries after a fire broke out in an eatery in Maharashtras Pune city in the early hoursThe accident occurred around 1 am at hotel Revan Siddhi in the Market Yard area of the city according to a report by the news agency PTIAn official told the news agency that the shutter of the hotel was locked from the outside and some workers were stranded in the loft inside He said firefighters broke open the shutter with the help of cutters and found three unconscious workers insideThe three workers were rushed to a hospital where two of them were declared dead he said The fire started in the kitchen though its cause is yet to be ascertained the official saidThe fire was brought under control in some time and four liquified petroleum gas LPG cylinders were removed from the eatery he addedSeries of fire incidents and deaths in earlier cases in PuneIn February this year a fire broke out at a vegetable market in MaharashtrasPune city in which nearly 90 stalls were damaged and two tempos burnt fire brigade officials had said Nearly 90 stalls were damaged in the blaze which also destroyed a large quantity of vegetables Two tempos were also gutted a fire official saidIn September 2021 one person was killed and two others were injured after a fire broke out at a small unit involved in making cake firework candles at an industrial estate in Pune district One person was killed in the blaze a police official said adding that two other persons received minor injuries while escaping from the unit The deceased was identified as Dattanand Digambar Sonawane 40 the official saidIn June 2021 at least 18 workers mostly women were charred to death in a devastating fire that broke out at a chemical firm in an industrial area in Pune district officials said According to the officials the fire broke out at SVS Aqua Technologies which manufactures chlorine dioxide among other chemicals and is located in the Pirangut MIDC area of Mulshi tehsil on the outskirts of Pune cityIn December 2016 six workers were suffocated to death when a fire broke out in a bakery shop whose only exit was locked from outside in Kondhwa area The victims all hailing from Uttar Pradesh used to sleep on the loft inside the bakery shop Bakes and Cakes which is owned by three partnersThe deceased were identified as Ishad Ansari 26 Juned Ansari 25 Shanu Ansari 20 Zakir Ansari 24 Faeem Ansari 21 and Zishan Ansari 21 Since the main shutter was locked from outside all the six got trapped inside and died of suffocation a fire official had informed