Thane: Firefighters managed to rescue around 150 people trapped on the terrace of a factory-cum-residential complex in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi town where a major fire broke out on Tuesday morning, officials said.

According to police in Thane, soon after the blaze was noticed around 6.30 a.m. on the ground floor which housed a powerloom, the residents, many caught in their sleep, in a bid to escape the leaping flames, rushed to the terrace of the four-storeyed Rahat Manzil building in Kasimpura.