In a tragic and unexpected situation, a minor fire broke out in the lavatory of the moving Daund-Pune shuttle train on Monday morning. The incident happened after a passenger from Madhya Pradesh allegedly threw a lighted cigarette in a dustbin, the smoke coming out of the dustbin causing panic among passengers, police said.

As reported by PTI, the blaze was quickly doused, and no one was injured in the incident which occurred near Yavat in Pune district at around 8 am, an official from Daund railway police station said.

A railway spokesperson, while addressing the situation, said that "a 55-year-old person, who prima facie seemed to be mentally unstable, was detained in connection with the incident and handed over to police."