Nagpur Apr 25 PTI An aged man was killed after a fire broke out in his furniture shop in Maharashtras Nagpur district on Monday police said The blaze erupted around 3 am in the shop located in Katol town about 60 km from the district headquarters they said The furniture shop was located on the ground floor of a building while the family owning the shop lived in a house on the first floor The shop owner Noor Mohd Hussain Bothar 93 was bed-ridden and unable to walk He was sleeping in the shop and died of suffocation due to smoke after the fire Katol police stations inspector Mahadev Achrekar said Three fire tenders were pressed into service and firefighters managed to douse the flames after about three hours he said A case of accidental death was registered The cause of the fire was not yet known the police said PTI COR GK GK
Nagpur Oct 17 PTI Two pedestrians were killed in separate road accidents in Nagpur city of Maharashtra police said on Sunday The mishaps occurred in the areas under the jurisdiction of Beltarodi and Wadi police stations in the city on Saturday In the first case a 50-year-old unidentified man was knocked down by a two-wheeler on Wardha road around 1130 pm on Saturday an official of Beltarodi police station said A scooter came from behind and hit him when he was walking He died on the spot the official said In the second case victim Shalu Lavhaji Raisidam 53 a resident of Khadgaon Road was crossing a road at Katol bypass when a speeding truck hit her on Saturday afternoon She suffered grievous injuries in the mishap and was taken to a hospital where doctors declared her dead police said Police have registered a case against the driver of the truck PTI COR NP NP
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