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PIC: RAHUL DESHMUKH Labourers trapped on top floor of under-construction project in Manjri SEZ found dead as flames were doused; point of origin thought to be welding sparks. With the dawn of the vaccine drive against COVID-19 just days ago, things may have been looking up for people after a long time. But tragedy seemed to be waiting around the corner, and even as labour was beginning to return to major cities and find work after severe hardships during the lockdown, five precious lives of contractual workers were lost in a giant blaze at the Serum Institute of India’s (SII) Manjri premises in ....
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The building where fire broke out is one km from the Covishield vaccine manufacturing unit.photo) PUNE: The Serum Institute of India (SII) on Friday said it has suffered losses of over Rs 1,000 crore due to the devastating fire on Thursday even as Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said that probe will reveal if the blaze was an accident or a sabotage. Five contractual labourers died in the fire that broke out in a five-storey building in the SII s Manjari premises in Pune. The chief minister visited the SII on Friday to take stock of the damages. He later addressed a press conference, where Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer (CEO) of the SII was also present. ....
Lucky escape for some at Serum Institute India Published: Friday, January 22, 2021, 9:13 [IST] Pune, Jan 22: Some contractual workers had a lucky escape as they ran to safety in time when a fire broke out in an under-construction building at the Serum Institute of India (SII) premises here on Thursday afternoon. Massive Fire at Serum Institute | Covishield maker suffers blaze | Oneindia News Avinash Kumar, one of the contractual labourers working in the five-storey building at the time of the incident, said moment the fire broke out he along with some others quickly ran away and saved their lives. Moment we saw smoke emanating from somewhere in the building, we escaped from the floor where we were working, said Kumar. ....
22 January 2021 Hours after a blaze at serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune left five workers dead, a fresh fire has reportedly broken out at the same facility in the afternoon. Fire fighting operation is underway and workers have been evacuated from the building, say reports. Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol said the five persons who died in the fire incident were working on the building floor. Fire officials found the charred bodies during an inspection, said Mohol. The deceased have been identified as Rama Shankar Harijan and Bipin Saroj, both residents of Uttar Pradesh, Sushil Kumar Pandey, resident of Bihar and Mahendra Ingle and Pratik Pashte, both residents of Pune. All of them were contractual labourers and were doing some electrical work at the site. ....