Maharashtra: MSRTC bus catches fire in Latur; no casualties

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A Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus on Monday caught fire in Latur district of Maharashtra. No casualties were reported in the incident, police said on Monday, reported the PTI.

The state transport bus was parked on the side of a road and suddenly caught fire, the news agency reported.

According to the PTI, the blaze erupted on a MSRTC bus near Omardara village in Jalkoat tehsil on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, an official said.

The bus was heading to Omarda village from Udgir when it broke down on the way and was parked on the side of the road, he said.

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The official said the driver and conductor were asleep inside the bus when the fire broke out around 1.30 am, and they escaped unhurt.

A fire engine was pressed into service to douse the flames, he said, adding that the incident is being probed.

Meanwhile, last week, a fire erupted in some shops located in a slum area in Govandi suburb of Mumbai on Tuesday. Nobody was injured in the incident as per the preliminary information and efforts are underway to douse flames, newswire PTI reported quoting officials.

"The blaze erupted at around 3 pm in four to five shops on the ground floor of a structure in a slum area in Zakir Hussain Nagar. It is mainly confined to electric wiring, electric installation, stock of scrap material and cardboard papers etc.," a civic official said.

At least four fire engines and other vehicles of Mumbai Fire Brigade are at the spot and fire fighting operation was underway, he added. The cause behind the blaze cannot be known immediately.

In a separate incident, four motorcycles were gutted in a fire that broke out in a bike showroom in Thane city of Maharashtra on Tuesday.

Nobody was injured in the incident that took place on Ghodbunder Road in the early hours, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell.

"The blaze erupted at around 3 am in the garbage lying near the showroom and soon spread to the outlet. Four motorcycles were gutted in the fire. The personnel of the fire brigade and RDMC rushed to the spot and launched a firefighting operation," he said.

The fire was extinguished by around 3.50 am, Tadvi said, adding that its cause is being investigated.

(with PTI inputs)