India, Oct. 21 -- Two people died and four others suffered burn injuries, one of them 80% burns, after a fire broke out at a scrap godown at Abdul Rashid Compound in Saki Naka, Andheri (east), on Tuesday. The Mumbai Fire Brigade received the call at 6:18pm and declared it a Level-II fire soon after.

The injured were taken to the civic-run Rajawadi Hospital, police said. The identity of the deceased is yet to be established.

A senior fire brigade officer said, "The scale and nature of the fire make it difficult to say anything at this stage about the reason for the blaze." Preliminary investigations were unable to fix the cause or origin of the fire as it spread quickly as the scrap rapidly fed the blaze. "Extinguishing the fire was also...