Dharavi may have lost its ignoble status of being Asia’s largest slum but it still hosts the hazards that a chaotic mass of shacks leaning in on each other pose to the safety of its residents.After 4 am on Friday, a fire broke out at Nayanagar slum in Mahim, along the Dharavi-Sion Link Road, gutting over 50 of the illegally erected structures, and charring six people while leaving eight others to nurse severe burn injuries.

Six people were charred to death when a fire blazed through a part of the Nayanagar slum in Mahim in the wee hours of Friday