Blaze Engulfs Three Shops in Thane, No Casualties Reported

Three shops were destroyed by a fire in Thane, Maharashtra, on Friday morning, but no injuries were reported. The fire started in one shop in Mumbra around 8 am and spread to two others before being extinguished by firefighters in an hour. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Three shops were gutted in a fire in Maharashtra's Thane district on Friday morning, and no one was hurt in the incident, a civic official said.

The blaze erupted in one of the shops in the Shil-Phata locality in Mumbra around 8 am and spread to two other establishments, the official said. Local firefighters and disaster management personnel were pressed into service, and the fire was doused in an hour, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster management cell.

While no one was injured in the incident, three shops were gutted, he said, adding that the cause for the blaze is yet to be ascertained.

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