India, Sept. 25 -- What began as a normal workday at a catering services workshop in Akurli, Kandivali East, suddenly took a grim turn when a gas leak set the kitchen ablaze at around 9.05 am on Wednesday. Six female and one male cook were badly burned in the fire that consumed the entire workshop.

The accident occurred two hours after the employees had begun their shift at Shivani Catering and were chopping vegetables and prepping for the cooking. At around 8.45 am, Jitendra Mistry, the landlord, who lives on the first floor, smelled gas in the air. "I called up the workers and told them about the odour but they said there was none," he told HT. "Maybe they were so used to the smell of the gas that they couldn't differentiate it from th...