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Following the major fire at the Serum Institute of India (SII) campus in Pune on Thursday that killed five persons and caused serious property damage, top officials from fire wings of three Maharashtra government agencies on Friday launched a probe to ascertain the cause of the blaze.
Five contractual labourers had died in the fire which broke out in a five-storeyed under-construction building in the Serum Institute of India s Manjari premises on Thursday.
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Mumbai: A day after a fire broke out in an under-construction building at the Serum India of Institute (SII), killing five people, CEO Adar Poonawalla has estimated the resultant financial loss to be Rs 1,000 crore but has clarified that there was no impact on the supply of the anti-coronavirus vaccine, Covishield, and its production would not be affected. However, other facilities involved in the production of rotavirus and BCG vaccines were damaged.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who visited the SII facility on Friday and also met company Chairman Cyrus Poonawalla and his son Adar, said investigation would reveal whether it was an accident or sabotage.
Serum Institute fire: Three govt agencies launch joint probe
Five contractual labourers had died in the fire which broke out in a five-storeyed under-construction building in the Serum Institute of India s Manjari premises on Thursday
PTI | January 22, 2021 | Updated 16:55 IST
Top officials from fire wings of three Maharashtra government agencies on Friday launched a probe to ascertain the cause of the blaze that killed five workers at Serum Institute of India s premises here.
Heads of fire departments of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) and Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) are part of the joint probe team.
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Thackeray visits Serum Institute after fire, loss pegged at Rs 1K cr
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Pune, Jan 22 : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday visited the Serum Institute of India (SII) where a fire at its semi-ready Manjari complex claimed five lives while inflicting an estimated loss of Rs 1,000 cr to the global vaccine giant.
Thackeray visited the SII facility that was gutted on Thursday and also met the company Chairman Cyrus Poonawalla and his son Adar. We have ordered a thorough probe. There cannot be any conclusions till the full investigations are complete and the report is available. Then we will know whether it was an accident or sabotage, he said.