The incident took place in the Boisar area on Saturday night. The two men, identified as Dhananjay Sahani, 29, and Chottelal Saini, 28, worked as painters and shared a rented room in Mahavir Nagar

The fire broke out in the corridor on the seventh floor of the A Wing of Aravali Hills Society, a ground-plus-seven-storey residential building in the Kasarvadavali area. The Thane Municipal Corporation received information about the incident at around 12.20 am.