At least 42 fires were reported across Gurugram during Diwali celebrations on Sunday, leaving a 37-year-old truck driver dead, fire department officials said.
Police have launched an investigation and shifted his body to a mortuary in Gurugram. No casualties were reported,” the official said. No casualties were reported.
The cause of the fire was yet to be established. “The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. “The fire spread up to the third floor, and the balcony of an adjoining building was also affected. The house owner was not home at the time.
Of the 42 incidents, 15 were reported under the jurisdiction of the Sector 29 fire station, 10 each under Bhim Nagar and Sector 37, four under Udyog Vihar, two under Pataudi and one under Sohna. Pawan Singh, 37, a truck driver from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was burned to death after his vehicle, parked at a facility in Khentawas village in Farrukhnagar, caught fire on Sunday night. In another incident, a major fire broke out at a multi-storey hardware store on Khandsa Road around 2.50pm on Sunday, gutting its first and second floors. A fire official from the Sector 37 fire station said at least 10 fire tenders were deployed, and the blaze was brought under control by 10pm. Residents’ welfare association president Jatin Rao said four to five fire tenders were deployed and firefighters reached the spot around 10.20pm.
Officials said Singh was reportedly consuming alcohol inside the truck when the fire broke out and spread rapidly, trapping him inside. The two floors were completely gutted,” Rao said.
