Pune
A painful news has come out from Pune near Pune in Maharashtra on Wednesday. Four employees of the company going to the office died burnt to death due to a fire in the minibus of a private firm here. According to the information, a fire broke out in Hinjwadi in Pimpri Chinchwad area at around 7.30 am in the mini bus. A police officer said that the accident happened when the emergency gate at the back in the mini bus could not open and some employees got stuck inside the car.
During the investigation, it is revealed that the vehicle had an employee of the Vyom Graphics Company. At the time of the incident, 12 employees of the firm were going to office to work in Hinjwadi from Warje. According to officials, when the car reached the Dassault Systems, a fire broke out under the driver’s seat. The driver reduced the speed of the vehicle after which some employees got off the minibus. However, some people got stuck inside.
Senior Police Inspector Kanhaiya Thorat of Hinjewadi Police Station told PTI, “Four employees immediately got down from Minibus, sensing the danger. The people sitting behind the car tried to run away from the emergency exit gate from the back side but they could not succeed.” At the same time, a fire officer of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation said that the fire spread rapidly from the front to which the employees did not get a chance to flee and they managed to save the people trapped inside. Later the fire has been controlled.
