The death toll in a major fire on Friday in the Dreams Mall of Mumbai's Bhandup area, where a COVID-19 centre, Sunrise Hospital was located, has climbed to 10 and many other patients were injured.
According to the BMC Disaster Control, the blaze was noticed around midnight on the first floor and quickly spread to the two upper floors of the 3-storey mall, which houses the Covid-19 hospital on the top floor.
Mumbai Fire Brigade and disaster teams rushed to combat the blaze and to rescue and transfer the Covid patients to other hospitals in the vicinity.
Earlier, a hospital statement said that there were bodies of 2 COVID-19 patients on the premises, and further details of the same were awaited.
At least 10 fire-tenders were battling the blaze till Friday morning and top officials, including Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani, top fire brigade, police and civic officials rushed to the spot.
The rescued patients were shifted to the jumbo COVID-19 field hospital in Mulund and Fortis Hospital.
As per an ANI report, the hospital has claimed that the deaths aren't due to the fire but corpses recovered were of persons who earlier died due to COVID-19.
