Fire breaks retired astatine a banquet hall, successful Noida, aboriginal Wednesday. (PTI/ANI screengrab)
A monolithic occurrence broke retired successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday successful a banquet hallway here, resulting successful the decease of an electrician, officials said.
Police said the occurrence erupted astir 3:30 americium successful the “Lotus Grenadier” banquet hallway adjacent Sarfabad colony nether the jurisdiction of Sector-113 constabulary station.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 1) Rambadan Singh said occurrence section unit reached the country astir 3:40 americium with 5 occurrence engines.
However, arsenic the occurrence kept spreading, 10 much occurrence engines were dispatched to incorporate the blaze.
“Several radical trapped wrong were safely evacuated but an electrician named Pravendra died successful the fire,” Singh said.
Chief Fire Officer Pradeep Kumar Chaubey said the hall’s chiefly woody operation contributed to the accelerated dispersed of the fire. It took the section astir 3 hours to bring the occurrence nether control.
The origin of the occurrence is nether investigation, constabulary said.
A akin occurrence incidental occurred successful the aforesaid banquet hallway connected November 21 past year. No casualties were reported successful that incident.