Mumbai, May 3 -- A major fire broke out at a plastic pipe manufacturing warehouse in the Khadda Jin area of Malegaon on Sunday, causing extensive property damage.

Plastic pipes worth several lakhs of rupees were reduced to ashes in the blaze that erupted at the warehouse of a plastic pipe manufacturing company.

The Malegaon Fire Department rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control after a strenuous operation.

Further details are awaited.

Earlier in April, a fire broke out in a dyeing factory in Bhiwandi's Nadi Naka area, and no casualties were reported. Bhiwandi Fire Officer Parveen More, speaking to reporters, said, "There was a fire in a factory named Akash Dyeing; the fire has been extinguished."

Earlier on that day, a...