Officers at Pune’s Kalepadal police station have launched a probe to determine the exact cause of Friday’s fire in Undri and to rule out negligence.
Days after a teenager was killed and eight others were injured in a major fire that broke out at an apartment in Undri, the Pune Fire Brigade has issued an advisory on the fire safety compliance of buildings in its limits.
The fire, which broke out on the 12th-floor apartment of the residential buildin,g is believed to have suffocated Tarsh Kamal Khetan, 15, who was alone at home on Friday afternoon. The injured, including two firefighters, sustained burns when a cooking gas cylinder exploded as the firefighting operation was underway. A probe later revealed that the building’s central firefighting system was defunct.
