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Thane Fire News: At least two people were killed after a massive fire broke out at a cotton warehouse in the Bhiwandi area in Maharashtra on Tuesday, Thane Municipal Corporation said. According to officials, a 35-year-old woman worker and her three-year-old son were charred to death after a fire broke out at a godown in Bhiwandi.

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Cotton was stored at the godown situated inside Parasnath Compound at Ovali village, said Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell officer Sakib Kharbe, news agency PTI said.

Soon after the information was received about the fire incident, two fire engines of the BNMC rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control around 9:45 PM, he said.

The Deceased were identified as Shakuntala Ravi Rajbhar and her son Prince Ravi Rajbhar and their bodies were recovered from the burnt structure. The woman worked in the godown, and she initially ran out of the building when the fire broke out, Kharbe said. But on realising that the child was inside, she went back in and got trapped, he added.

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It seems that she attempted to escape the flames by hiding in the toilet with the child, but its fibreglass door could not keep the flames away. He will raise the matter with the district collector because the majority of godowns in Bhiwandi, a centre for the powerloom sector, do not have firefighting equipment, the official stated.

In another similar incident that was reported from Dadar, several vehicles were charred after a massive fire broke out in the parking lot of the Kohinoor building on the Harishchandra Yewale Marg in Mumbai. 

(With Inputs From Agencies)