A minor fire broke out in the electrical duct in a 16-storey residential building in Kurla (East) area of Mumbai on Saturday afternoon. Three people have been hospitalised after they complained of suffocation, officials in Mumbai civic body said.

The fire started in the duct on the fourth floor of Savera Heights in Nehru Nagar around 2.40 pm, said a release issued by the Mumbai civic body. The blaze was confined to the electric wiring and installations in the duct from fourth to the 15th floor of the ground-plus-upper 17-floored building.