Navsari warehouse blaze claims three lives, injures four

Surat: Three persons died and four were injured in a fire at a warehouse in Devsar village near Bilimora of Navsari district on Saturday. The injured were admitted to a hospital in Valsad. Firefighting lasted around three hours before the blaze was controlled.

Firefighting teams from Bilimora, Gandevi and Navsari were involved in the operation. The deceased were identified as Anup Moharsing Nuniya (35), Nilesh Arvind Rathod (35), and Shailesh Dhiru Aahir (42). Workers were unloading chemical containers from a truck to be stored in a warehouse when a container fell on the ground, sparking a fire with a blast.



"The chemical in the containers was highly flammable and the fire spread immediately. The deceased died from severe burns," said a police officer. Apart from the warehouse in which the chemical was being stored, two other warehouses, holding plastic and furniture, were engulfed in the blaze.

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