Fire

Japan : Two men were found dead after a fire on Sunday morning burnt down three houses in Tochigi city in Japan, local media reported. Local police said the house fire at a two-story wooden house in the city of Oyama was reported after 2:00…

France : A mother and her seven children aged between 2 and 14 died in a house fire in France's northern department of Aisne, the local prefecture confirmed in a press release. Just after midnight on Monday, the blaze ripped through a…

Egypt : At least three people were killed and 32 others wounded in a fire that broke out on Wednesday at a charitable hospital in the capital Cairo, said the Egyptian Health Ministry in a statement. The accident took place at the…

Dhanbad (Jharkhand) : Six people, including two doctors, died after a fire broke out in Hazra hospital in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Saturday. When the fire department got the information, six fire tenders were pressed into service to…

Japan : Four people were killed while as many feared dead after a fire broke out early Sunday at an apartment in Japan's Kobe city, local media said. Firefighters received a call around 1.35 a.m. local time saying that black smoke was…

West Bengal : Two people were killed and 15 huts gutted in a devastating fire on Wednesday at a slum in Mecheda in West Bengal's East Midnapore district. The victims were identified as Gokul Kar (70) and his daughter Mallika Kar (40).…

Iran : A massive fire that broke out in a company in Iran's northern province of Qazvin killed at least four people and injured two others, Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported. The victims were employees of the company in the…

Ahmedabad : A 17-year-old girl was killed after a fire broke out in seventh floor of a residential apartment in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The blaze erupted around 7 a.m. at the the house of Suresh Jeerawala after which he and his family…

Seoul : Six people were found dead and about 20 others injured on Thursday in a fire that broke out in a tunnel along an expressway in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, South Korean fire authorities said. The blaze was reported to have…

Philippines : Seven people were killed after a fire broke out at a two-level house in the Philippine capital on Sunday morning. Firefighter Eugene Briones said the fire broke out around 9 a.m. local time in Muntinlupa City and was…