An Andheri resident's balcony was set ablaze on Sunday night when clothes hanging on the clothesline caught fire from an unattended lamp (diya) lit for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's '9baje9minute' call.

Neighbours, who were in their balconies at the time — lighting candles and flashing their torches — saw the fire and started shouting, which alerted the watchman who immediately went running up to the third-floor flat and doused the fire. There was no casualty during the incident.