Pune Minibus Fire: Four Employees Burned To Death, Five Injured As Private Firm Vehicle Catches Fire

As many as four officegoers lost their lives while five others suffered burns after a minibus caught fire at Hinjewadi in the Pimpri Chinchwad area around 7.30 am. The deaths happened because the emergency exit door on the rear side of the bus failed to open at the right time and some employees were left trapped inside the vehicle.

The vehicle belonged to a company named Vyoms Graphics and it was carrying 12 employees of the firm from Warje to work in Hinjewadi at the time of the incident, news agency PTI reported.

The driver slowed down the vehicle because the fire began near his seat as the vehicle neared Dassault Systemes. The fire spread to the front side, allowing some of the employees to get off the bus escaping the danger. 

“Sensing danger, four employees immediately got off the minibus. Those at the rear side of the vehicle tried to escape through the emergency exit at the backside,” Kanhaiya Thorat, senior police inspector of Hinjewadi police station, told PTI. 

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The fire spread rapidly from the front to the back, giving no time for the employees, sitting in the rear side, to get away from the danger, according to a fire brigade official from Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. 

Citing the preliminary report into the incident, the official said that some employees failed to escape after the exit door at the back did not open. Four of the employees were charred to death while five other employees sustained burn injuries.

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According to Hinjewadi Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vishal Gaikwad, the bodies of the dead were removed from the vehicle and the injured were rushed to the nearby Ruby Hall clinic for medical care.