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A bus carrying RGPV students and staff hit the divider and then an electric pole on a curve of VIP Road, Bhopal, at about 10 am on 27 October 2026. Reports say 10 to 11 people were hurt and taken to Hamidia Hospital. Students allege the driver was speeding because the bus was half an hour late. Police say the bus was fast on the bend. No deaths reported. Updated 27 October 2026.
A bus carrying RGPV students and staff hit the divider and then an electric pole on a curve of VIP Road, Bhopal, at about…
A fire broke out at about 3.30 am on 27 October 2026 in a cotton and synthetic thread unit in Shivnagar, near Kishanpura, Panipat.…
A fire started on a bed in room 201 of a large private lodge on the Rampurhat to Tarapith road, Birbhum, West Bengal, at…
A wooden VIP cottage at The Woods, a government-built and privately run resort on the Maredumilli to Chintur road in Andhra Pradesh, caught fire…
A fire gutted the living room, bedroom and wiring of a flat on the 9th floor of the 13-storey Rainbow Apartments at Payyambalam, Kannur,…
Four workers of a contractor fell unconscious into the pump-house sump of an AMC sewage treatment plant under construction at Sola, Ahmedabad, on 26…
A private bus from Ambikapur to Raipur with about 22 people on board hit the back of a broken-down truck standing on NH-130 near…
A fire broke out in an air-conditioning boiler on the rooftop of North Block, New Delhi, at about 11.10 am on 26 October 2026,…
A fire in the signalling relay room at Kanjurmarg station, Mumbai, at about 9.30 am on 26 October 2026 blanked the signals between Bhandup…
A fire that began in one parked bus at the Midnapore Central Bus Stand around midnight on Lakshmi Puja night, 25 to 26 October…
Two trailers collided head-on on the coal corridor road near Aunlabahal Chhak, Lefripada, Sundargarh, Odisha, in the early hours of 25 October 2026. Both…
Four friends aged between 19 and 24 died and a fifth was badly burnt when their car went off a culvert on the Lebad-Nayagaon…
A fire that began in one parked bus at the Bhopal ISBT on the evening of 25 October 2026 spread to its neighbours and…
A fire broke out in the upper part of the very large dome-shaped pandal of the Shri Ram Katha at Karera, Shivpuri district, around…
An explosion followed by a fire at a scrap shop in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad, on 25 October 2026 left the 43-year-old owner critically burnt (50…
A fire that began around 10.30 pm on 25 October 2026 damaged 30 to 40 shops in Shiv Market, opposite Jammu railway station, and…
A church bus returning from a funeral collided head-on with a truck at Kanga near Mtito Andei, Kenya, on 25 October 2026. At least…
Part of a house collapsed at Milan Garden, Harsh Vihar, North East Delhi, on the evening of 25 October 2026 while an extra floor…
A speeding car ran into a group of villagers, mostly women and children, carrying Teshu and Jhanjhi figures for immersion near Chhatanpur village in…
Three people, including a 9-year-old child, were injured in a blast in a storage room used by a chaat seller near Pattanagere, RR Nagar,…
Cylinders exploded one after another in an oil and gas shop on Abbigere Main Road, Kammagondanahalli, Bengaluru, at about 8.30 pm on 24 October…
A Rs 2.60 crore digital-arrest fraud on a Goa woman in 2025 led the ED to an alleged laundering network of 400+ mule accounts…
A fire broke out in an old, unused part of Surat's New Civil Hospital on 24 October 2026 while electrical repair work was going…
A fire at Mir Sales Corporation, a blanket and furnishing unit in Karan Nagar, Srinagar, started at about 11.18 pm on 24 October 2026…
A fire in the main market at Pakribarawan, Nawada (Bihar), on the evening of 24 October 2026 started in a showroom and spread to…
A fire in the open rear compound of Danilimda Police Station in Ahmedabad on 24 October 2026 spread through seized and parked vehicles, damaging…
A furnace blast at the Shriram Power and Steel plant in Kuju, Ramgarh, Jharkhand, on the evening of 24 October 2026 burnt three or…
A fire that began during renovation work in a row of tin-shed tea and snack shops in Raipur village, Noida, on 24 October 2026…
A TNSTC bus was buried by a mudslide near Burliar on the Coonoor ghat road in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, on the night of…
A fire broke out while diesel was being poured into a vehicle at a road-construction site near Pinakota in Andhra Pradesh's ASR district on…
A fire that began on an upper floor of a plastic goods factory at B-41, Mayapuri Industrial Area, on the night of 23 October…
A 12-hour bandh against the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project turned violent in Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, on the evening of 23 October 2026. An…
A man of 65 died on a third-floor balcony in Gayatri Nagar, Ganj Basoda (Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh) on 23 October 2026, after contact with…
A fire broke out in the S-6 sleeper coach of the Shaheed Express near Nagina in Bijnor on the night of 23 October 2026.…
Firecrackers being made at a family house in Alampur village, Siwan, Bihar, caught fire on the evening of 23 October 2026 and exploded repeatedly…
A fire that reportedly began at a street-level poster climbed the front of a three- or four-storey imitation-jewellery building in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai, on 22…
A passenger bus travelling from Manendragarh to Kelhari hit a roadside tree on 22 October 2026 shortly after noon. Six people died and 20…
A fire in a gold jewellery factory in Jaipur's Sitapura Industrial Area on the evening of 22 October 2026 killed two workers by suffocation…
Chloroform vapour leaked in Production Block-2 of Saraca Laboratories, Sangareddy, on the night of 22 October 2026. Two workers died and six were reported…
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu, Tibet, at 10:33 pm China time on 22 October 2026. The official toll is 16…
Around midnight to 1 a.m. on 21-22 October 2026, a low-hanging wire met an 11 kV line near a tractor-trolley carrying an idol to…
Fire broke out at about 11.33 pm on 20 October 2026 in a factory making coolers and LED screens on plot 124, Kundli industrial…
Records of 3,897 State Bank of India customers, found among about 3.75 lakh records on the dark web, carry names, mobile numbers, dates of…
A fire in the hanging restaurant on the Biswa Bangla Gate in New Town, Kolkata, on the evening of 21 October 2026 sent smoke…
A fire in the warehouse of an LPG agency in Saroorpur village, Faridabad, on the afternoon of 21 October 2026 burst cylinders and burnt…
Tourists were swept away at Himchhari beach in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on the afternoon of 21 October 2026. First reports said 3 dead and…
On the evening of 21 October 2026 a rod or frame on a tractor-trolley carrying a Durga idol touched an 11 kV overhead line…
On the evening of 21 October 2026 a fire gutted an electric two-wheeler showroom in Gola Bazaar, Sadar Cantt, Lucknow, and damaged the utensil…
On the morning of 21 October 2026 a blast tore through a private firecracker godown near Anaikattu in Vellore district. One woman died at…
In the early hours of 21 October 2026, a truck and a Bolero carrying labourers collided on the Morbi-Navlakhi road in Gujarat. Morbi News…
A hut in Nonapar village, Bhatni, Deoria, caught fire at about 1.30 am on 21 October 2026 while four members of a family slept…
A passenger bus and a sand-laden truck collided head-on on the Natore-Pabna highway at Baraigram, Bangladesh, at about 4.30 a.m. on 20 October 2026.…
A residential building with a ground floor and four upper floors collapsed completely in Abu Suleiman, Alexandria, on the evening of 20 October 2026.…
On the afternoon of 20 October 2026 the ferry KMP Batumandi caught fire near Merak Port, Banten, Indonesia, on the Bakauheni to Merak crossing,…
A fire broke out on a stage during a play at a Durga Puja gathering in Rasulpur, Barharia, Siwan, Bihar, on the night of…
Two men were injured in an explosion at an under-construction building in Pulakeshinagar, Bengaluru, on the afternoon of 20 October 2026. The police are…
A Level-II fire hit a scrap godown at Abdul Rashid Compound, Khairani Road, Saki Naka, Mumbai, on the evening of 20 October 2026. Two…
A fire in the electrical duct of a 13-storey residential tower at Kohinoor HDIL, Kurla West, Mumbai, on the morning of 20 October 2026…
On the evening of 20 October 2026, a small wooden boat carrying seven people and a Durga idol capsized in the Chambal right main…
Storm DANA Adam brought extreme rain to eastern Spain from 17 to 19 October 2026, with 632 mm in 36 hours at Pego and…
A slope at an artisanal open-pit gold mine collapsed on the morning of 19 October 2026 in Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé, Nariño, Colombia, killing…
A fire broke out at the Parle-G biscuit factory in the Richhai Industrial Area, Jabalpur, on the afternoon of 19 October 2026. No deaths…
A fire broke out in a cloth shop on the third floor of the Adinath Textile Market in Salabatpura, Surat, at about 10:30 to…
Around 4 am on 19 October 2026, a milk tanker hit the back of a gas tanker near Nandesari, Vadodara, damaging a valve and…
On the afternoon of 18 October 2026, a speeding car ran into rural-job-scheme workers resting by the Lehragaga-Jakhal road near Alisher village in Sangrur…
A fire tore through the three-storey Sarda Bio Polymers guar gum factory in Pali's Fourth Phase industrial area late on 18 October 2026, with…
On the morning of 18 October 2026, a car carrying a family from Majalgaon to Tuljapur swerved to avoid potholes on the Khamgaon-Pandharpur National…
At about 1.30 a.m. on 18 October 2026, during Navratri, a paddy-laden truck came down a steep road where heavy vehicles were barred and…
A 5 kg LPG cylinder caught fire while a woman was making Durga Puja prasad at home in Mangaso village, Dhanwar, Giridih, at about…
On 16 or 17 October 2026 a dumper hit a moped from behind on the Vesu VIP road in Surat. One of the two…
At about 1 a.m. on 17 October 2026 molten iron fell on a 42-year-old contractor from Bihar at a steel plant in Rasmada, Durg,…
On the night of 17 October 2026 (Maha Saptami), a chimney under construction at a private sponge iron plant in Jamuria, Asansol, West Bengal,…
A heavy lighting truss fell on students at a dandiya night at MVSR Engineering College, Nadergul, Hyderabad, on the evening of 17 October 2026.…
A fire tore through Tuptup Resto & Resort, a wooden beachside resort at Patuartek on Inani Beach, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on the morning of…
A wind-driven grass fire overtook soldiers during live-fire training at CFB Wainwright, a military site in Alberta, at about 4 p.m. on 17 October…
A crowd crush at the exit of the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata at about 7.40 pm on 17 October 2026,…
A mini-bus carrying about 25 pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh to the Khatu Shyam ji temple fell from a culvert into a water-filled drain on…
A reactor exploded during a hydrogenation process at SynZeal Pharmachem in Saykha GIDC, Vagra taluka, Bharuch, at about 10 pm on 16 October 2026,…
A private AC sleeper bus and a goods lorry collided head-on near Kiranalli Gate, Periyapatna, Mysuru district, early on 16 October 2026. Four people…
An Eeco car carrying eight people, seven of a Kasganj family and the driver, to the Belon Mata temple hit a roadside tree on…
The upper-floor roof of the Al-Khair private school in Dir Colony, Peshawar, collapsed onto classrooms on the morning of 15 October 2026, killing at…
A Haryana-registered WagonR, described by some outlets as a taxi, fell about 150 metres into a gorge near Pali village on the Rishikesh–Badrinath highway,…
A fire at a foam and mattress unit on Safiabad Road near Barota village, Sonipat, in the early hours of 15 October 2026 killed…
A heavy truck hit a battery e-rickshaw (toto) near Keshro village on the Barharwa–Barhait road in Sahibganj district, Jharkhand, at about 8 pm on…
On the afternoon of 15 October 2026 a Calgary Transit bus set off a chain of collisions on Saddletowne Circle N.E. and hit a…
An explosion at a dye-making unit in Chhatral GIDC Phase-4, Kalol, on the afternoon of 15 October 2026 killed four migrant workers on the…
Record rain on 14 and 15 October 2026 caused flash floods across Istanbul and in neighbouring Kocaeli, Turkey. The latest official count is nine…
A fire at Drug International's Tongi factory required a large Fire Service response. The current record distinguishes source-attributed control times and provisional casualty reporting…
An overnight residential high-rise fire in Nalasopara led to two reported deaths, six reported hospital admissions and an evacuation/rescue operation. This case separates the…
On the evening of 13 October 2026, a fire at a family-run loose petrol and diesel shop in Ulho village, Nauhatta, Rohtas, killed the…
Gas rushing out of a fresh LPG cylinder, as it was being connected, caught fire from a puja diya in a house in Safiyabad…
A small country boat carrying villagers to a shraddh feast overturned in a Ganga channel near Rampur Shyamchand, Raghopur, Vaishali, on the night of…
A domestic cooking-gas fire was reported in Bamanpuri, Puranpur. News reports agree that a child died and other family members were treated, but differ…
A late-night restaurant kitchen fire in Maujpur prompted a rapid escape through a first-floor opening. Police-reported accounts said staff contained the fire and no…
A major fire at a Surat textile dyeing unit followed a reported boiler-area event. The record separates consistent response facts from conflicting injury counts…
A fatal house fire in Waterford led to a Garda murder investigation. The article preserves the official death and critical-injury record while avoiding unverified…
The Peshawar-bound Rahman Baba Express derailed near Multan while travelling from Karachi. Early reports differed on injuries, so this article records the latest source-attributed…
A fire in a multi-family home in Bochum-Hofstede made the stairwell unusable, requiring five rescues by ladders and a rescue cushion. Three Indian nationals,…
An electric car carrying a Nunna family and relatives home from a function at Namburu hit a railing on the Vijayawada West Bypass on…
A Dev Travels bus from Patna to Jogbani hit the back of a truck parked on NH-27 near Jhajha village, Supaul, early on 12…
AI-generated editorial illustration of firefighters responding to a night-time fire in an… Bicholim fire-station crews reportedly contained a late-night service-centre fire. This article preserves the conflicting early damage reports and does not attribute the fire to…
AI-generated editorial illustration of an overnight road-emergency response; not a photograph of… A tourist tempo traveller carrying a group of postgraduate students reportedly collided with a truck and overturned near Sulthan Bathery. This article distinguishes source-attributed…
International case study from Mexico. The remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel came ashore near Ensenada, Baja California, early on 11 October 2026, and flash…
A flash flood of mud, rock and water came down the Budhi Gandaki river in northern Gorkha, Nepal, before dawn on 11 October 2026,…
A fire in a thatched home in Mogappair West, Chennai, on the morning of 11 October 2026 spread quickly, and two LPG cylinders inside…
AI-generated editorial illustration of a cabin crew response to an overheating personal… IndiGo flight 6E 6115 was operating from Delhi to Chennai on 11 October 2026 when smoke was detected from a passenger’s personal electronic device.…
AI-generated editorial illustration of an industrial emergency response; not a photograph of… Two men died after a reported gas exposure at ESL Steel in Bokaro. The known record confirms the deaths and multiple inquiries; it does…
A leak from a domestic LPG cylinder caught fire on the morning of 10 October 2026 while a gas agency hawker was checking it…
A bus carrying BSF personnel returning from election duty collided with a truck near Howly in Assam. The incident record distinguishes early, source-attributed casualty…
A strong earthquake affected southern and central Panama on 9 October. It disrupted services, roads, buildings and airport operations, while the Panama Canal Authority…
Editorial illustration of a hospital emergency response after a medicine-store fire; not… ANI reported that more than 200 patients were evacuated safely after a medicine-store fire at Godhra Civil Hospital. The final official evacuation total and…
A fire broke out in a ground-floor grocery shop below the Jain family home near the market police post in Khekra, Baghpat, on the…
A Dar es Salaam to Mbeya passenger bus collided head-on with a timber lorry at Mkambarani, Morogoro, on the night of 8 to 9…
A residential building collapsed in New Seemapuri on 7 October. Early accounts reported three deaths; ANI’s 8 October morning update reported four. Eight injuries…
A fire involving reported firecracker storage in Hingoli's Marwadi Galli led to repeated explosions and a difficult response. The initial toll of two later…
A fire spread through parked BEST buses at Anik depot on the evening of 5 October. Early counts were lower; later reports described 12…
Editorial illustration of an industrial-facility emergency response; not a photograph of the… A boiler explosion at a Sri City pharmaceutical unit was reported to have killed five workers and seriously injured about ten others. This review…
A car with three occupants left a hill road near Chillad on 2 October. Police and SDRF rescued the occupants; one man died and…
Guests were evacuated from a Fort Kochi hotel fire. Contemporary night reports recorded no casualties; the suspected electrical cause has not been confirmed.
A car reportedly struck two two-wheelers at a Khar West junction. Iyappan Selvaraj Harijan died in hospital; Nancy and Rahul Ghanekar were reported injured.…
A blast collapsed a two-storey home. The later reported death toll was five. The cause and the latest condition of two surviving injured people…
Surat has seen repeated fires in piles of hotfix plastic waste, the film and sheets left over from heat-transfer work on cloth. In the…
An unfinished building collapsed during concrete work. Six deaths and 12 injuries were reported by 28 September; the structural cause remains unproven.
An MSRTC bus travelling toward Murud hit multiple autos and cars. Reports cite five or nine injured; suspected brake failure has not been established…
Days of heavy rain from a low-pressure system in late September 2026 flooded Bangkok and much of central Thailand, and set off floods and…
Explosions during the 23 September Basni factory-fire response initially injured 14 fire personnel according to early reports. Later reporting identifies three firefighter deaths: Pritesh,…
Three men died after entering a deep, fast-moving section of the Sai River during a Ganesh idol immersion. Reporting indicates that the incident developed…
Typhoon Dujuan (Typhoon No. 25) passed close to Tokyo and the Kanto region on 21 September 2026 and dropped record rain. Landslides and floods…
Editorial illustration of a hospital fire response; not a photograph of the… Fire and dense smoke affected the RIMS Adilabad newborn unit. Later reporting and the district collector's account put the death toll at five infants.…
On 20 September 2026 the Kottapuzha river at Pookkottumpadam, near Nilambur in Malappuram, rose suddenly after heavy rain in the forest upstream, though it…
A BMW left Mumbai's elevated Coastal Road near Lotus Jetty on 20 September. Reporting recorded three deaths and one injured survivor. A 29 September…
A car struck a median worksite near Ram Chowk, Gurugram, early on 17 September 2026. Later reports recorded three worker deaths. This review separates…
A car and dumper collided near Mithri bypass in Nawa, Rajasthan, around 5 am on 16 September 2026. Four car occupants died. Reporting supports…
Six students died during Ganesh idol immersion at a lake near Pedda Kanjerla, Telangana, on 16 September 2026. Reports agree on the death toll…
A family MPV struck a stationary truck near Shahapur on 16 September. Later reports recorded five deaths and six injuries; the reported mechanical fault…
A 13 September warehouse fire in East Delhi prompted a substantial response and a reported firefighter hospitalisation. This review separates verified reporting from conflicting…
A Delhi fire review focused on injuries outside the burning premises and the limits of early reports.
A fatal vehicle entry into an open drain highlights the need to distinguish reported events from unproven causes.
A dated review of the Delhi Road hotel fire, distinguishing the reported rescue from an unconfirmed electrical cause.
A major upper-floor textile-market fire in Surat damaged at least 16 shops, injured a firefighter and later prompted a police investigation into suspected deliberate…
A source-attributed review of the 9 September industrial-cylinder explosion, its response and the questions investigators still need to resolve.
A review of the Gandhinagar rescue with dated official statements and an explicit distinction between reported rescue totals and a cleared site.
A dated review of the Jhajjar collision, with conflicting report totals kept visible and no assumed cause.
A Sijua incident review separating police-attributed facts, differing injury reports and unresolved questions about the cause.
An official incident review separating recorded response information from an unconfirmed ignition hypothesis.
A response review focused on rescue information, damage scope and facts that remain unreported.
London Fire Brigade reported a warehouse fire on Alperton Lane, Wembley, on 6 September 2026.
A building used as student PG accommodation collapsed in Satya Niketan, Delhi, on 6 September 2026. Delhi Police reported seven deaths and five injured;…
A passenger minibus travelling toward Guwahati collided head-on with a goods truck on NH-27. Police and state reporting initially recorded seven deaths and five…
During a two-crane lift of project cargo reported at about 140 tonnes from the Barbados-flagged vessel Vienna, the operation became unstable. One mobile crane…
AI-generated editorial illustration, not an incident photograph A canteen-area fire spread through temporary worker shelters and reportedly involved at least 12 LPG cylinders; workers evacuated and no casualties were reported.
Existing editorial cover A reported drone strike and stored ammunition detonations caused a mass-casualty event near civilian buildings; conflict reporting and casualty counts require continuing verification.
An explosion at a marijuana-extraction facility killed workers Michael Newman and Stephen Scott and damaged neighbouring businesses. Prosecutors charged owner Ryan Bassham with two…
A rock-and-ice collapse high in the Himalayas became a fast, channelled debris-flood cascade across the Nepal–Tibet border. By 5 October 2026, when Nepal ended…
AI-generated editorial illustration, not an incident photograph A large Ganpati idol collapsed during its arrival procession, killing two people and injuring five. Police began examining construction, welding and possible overhead obstruction…
Incident gallery image 1 A predawn fire in a five-storey building housing several hotels killed nine people, left 16 in hospital and led authorities to inspect nearby guesthouses…
A crowd crush near the Ashok Dham temple in Lakhisarai, Bihar, at about 6:40 a.m. on 17 August 2026, the third Monday of Sawan,…
An explosion just before 12:30 p.m. on 5 August 2026 ripped through a five-storey, 27-flat apartment building on East 209th Street in Norwood, the…
A fire on 22 June 2026 in a three-storey building in Aliganj, Lucknow, that housed a coaching and animation centre killed 15 people, most…
A fire that began in the ground-floor kitchen of the Flourish Stay bed-and-breakfast in Hauz Rani, Malviya Nagar, on the morning of 3 June…
On 16 May 2026 a heavy SRT freight train hit a Route 206 city bus stuck on a gated level crossing near Makkasan station…
An ALS intercity bus and a fuel tanker crashed head-on and burnt out on the Trans-Sumatra Highway at Karang Jaya, North Musi Rawas, South…
Early on 26 March 2026, a Harikrishna Travels sleeper bus from Jagtial, Telangana, hit a gravel-laden tipper near Rayavaram, Markapuram district, and caught fire…
Incident gallery image 1 A major fire spread through congested cloth-market premises. Some accounts blamed a charging scooter, but collected reporting said the official cause had not yet…
Incident gallery image 1 A pre-dawn fire on 26 January 2026 swept through two adjoining warehouses at Nazirabad near Anandapur, Kolkata, while workers slept inside. Police and fire…
An overloaded bus carrying villagers from Balrampur, Chhattisgarh, to a pre-wedding ritual in Lodh village overturned and fell into a gorge on the Orsa…
Incident photograph 1 A late-night fire in an old wooden mixed-use building spread through shops and homes and involved multiple LPG cylinders; the final reported toll reached…
Incident photograph 1 On 28 October 2025, an empty AISATS passenger coach parked at stand C32 at Delhi Airport Terminal 3 caught fire while waiting to collect…
Incident photograph 1 On 24 October 2025, a Hyderabad–Bengaluru sleeper bus ran over a motorcycle already down on NH-44 near Chinnatekuru. Fire spread through the coach; later…
An air-conditioned sleeper bus travelling from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur caught fire on the afternoon of 14 October 2025. The initial toll was 20 (Akashvani,…
Incident photograph 1 Smoke from an electrical duct in SVP Hospital's separate laundry building prompted a rapid response on 6 October 2025. Operations ended in about 20…
Incident gallery image 1 Late on 5 October 2025, fire and smoke filled the trauma-centre ICU at SMS Hospital in Jaipur. The first state account gave six deaths,…
Incident gallery image 1 On 3 October 2025, sparks from welding fell on a large solvent container at a chemical unit in Chincholi MIDC, Solapur, fire brigade personnel…
Incident gallery image 1 Late on 1 October 2025, a large fire broke out at a paper factory in Bhiwandi, Thane district. Firefighters were still at work the…
Incident gallery image 1 Around 2 AM on 28 September 2025, a fire broke out in the drawing room of a fourth-floor flat in Deepshree Building, Kota. Child…
Incident gallery image 1 A 12th-floor apartment fire killed a teenage boy and injured eight people, including firefighters; Pune officials later highlighted failed building firefighting systems.
Incident gallery image 1 A major industrial fire at Panoli GIDC caused no reported deaths but produced a large smoke plume, reinforcing the need for chemical inventory intelligence,…
Incident gallery image 1 A fire in a plastic-products unit inside a dense multi-storey building killed five people, including two children, and tested high-rise access, water delivery and…
Incident gallery image 1 At about 9:25 AM on 30 June 2025, an explosion at Sigachi Industries' plant at Pashamylaram, Sangareddy district, Telangana, killed 54 people, including eight…
Incident gallery image 1 On the stormy night of 21 May 2025, a spark from a transformer is reported to have started a fire in Tappa Jamni village,…
Incident gallery image 1 Seventeen members of one family, including eight children, died of smoke and burn injuries in a dense residential-commercial building with constrained access near Charminar.
Incident gallery image 1 On the evening of 29 April 2025, a fire on the first floor of Rituraj Hotel in Burrabazar, Kolkata, killed 14 people, including two…
Four contract workers died and another was injured after burning coal spilled at the Corex unit during a restart at Hazira on 31 December…
Incident gallery image 1 Around 5:30 AM on 20 December 2024, a container truck hit an LPG tanker taking a U-turn at a highway cut near DPS, Bhankrota,…
Incident gallery image 1 On 19 November 2024, around 5:30 PM, a fire broke out at My EV Store, an electric-scooter showroom in Rajajinagar, Bengaluru. Batteries reportedly exploded,…
A late-night fire in the neonatal intensive care unit killed ten newborns immediately, injured 16 and led to the rescue of 37–45 babies in…
On 27 July 2024, rainwater from a waterlogged road rushed into a basement being used as a library at Rau's IAS Study Circle in…
Incident gallery image 1 Early on 12 June 2024, fire broke out in a six-storey labour-housing building in Mangaf, Kuwait, where nearly 195 workers of one company lived.…
Incident gallery image 1 An Air India A320 was taking off as an IndiGo A320 landed on the same runway shortly afterward. No collision or injury occurred, and…
A late-afternoon fire swept through a crowded two-level gaming venue and killed 27 people. Court and police records documented missing fire authorisation and approval…
Incident gallery image 1 In the early hours of 19 May 2024 in Kalyani Nagar, Pune, a Porsche allegedly driven fast by a drunk 17-year-old hit a motorcycle…
Incident gallery image 1 A light utility vehicle carrying ten people struck the rear of a stationary oil tanker on National Expressway 1; eight died at the scene…
Incident gallery image 1 In the early hours of 23 February 2024, fire swept through a plastic waste shredding unit in Gangondanahalli, Bengaluru, that also served as a…
The historic suspension footbridge collapsed four days after reopening following repairs, killing 135 people and injuring 56 in later official reporting. Court and SIT…
A fire beginning around 16:40 in a commercial building killed 27 people and injured at least 12. Official and investigative reporting identified unlicensed/unsanctioned use,…
A fire confined to the out-born section of the Special Newborn Care Unit killed ten infants; seven babies in the in-born unit were rescued.…
A recently built shelter roof collapsed during rain while about 60 people attended a cremation at Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, on 3 January 2021. On 5…
Incident gallery image 1 Eight COVID-19 ICU patients died in the 6 August 2020 Shrey Hospital fire in Ahmedabad. Court records document the incident and inquiry, while the…
Existing HowToSurvive.in incident image On 24 May 2019, fire spread up Takshashila Arcade in Surat and cut off the only staircase from a coaching class on the top…
Existing HowToSurvive.in incident image The Kamala Mills fire in Mumbai on 29 December 2017 killed 14 people, 11 women and 3 men, at two rooftop restaurants. They died…
Existing HowToSurvive.in incident image On 9 December 2011, smoke from a basement store at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata spread into the wards above and 92 people died, most…
Existing HowToSurvive.in image The Carlton Towers high-rise fire in Bengaluru killed nine people and injured 57. A Karnataka CAG audit documented delayed notification and failure of a…
Existing HowToSurvive.in image The Kumbakonam school fire killed 94 children after cooking fire spread into a thatched classroom area, demonstrating the fatal consequences of combustible roofs and…
Existing HowToSurvive.in image On 24 May 2002, a fire at the Shreeji International export shoe factory in Agra killed 44 workers. Flammable adhesive drums were kept by…
Existing HowToSurvive.in incident image On 13 June 1997, a transformer fire in the ground-floor parking of Uphaar Cinema in South Delhi sent thick smoke up a stairwell and…
Existing HowToSurvive.in image On 23 December 1995 a fire broke out in a pandal at Rajiv Marriage Palace in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana, during a DAV school annual…
A tall walk-through Himalayan replica made from timber, cloth, jute and grass burned rapidly during a crowded religious exhibition. A parliamentary reference recorded 49…
A fast-moving fire destroyed a thatch-and-timber touring cinema during a matinee. The strongest archival summary records 78 deaths—46 adults and 32 children—and 88 injured.…
Existing HowToSurvive.in incident image The SS Fort Stikine fire and explosions devastated Bombay docks, killing port workers, firefighters and residents and demonstrating the extreme danger of mixed hazardous…
A private bus travelling to a funeral overturned on Ananthagiri Ghat Road on 3 October. Police later confirmed four deaths and reported hospital transfers.…
A cockpit attack aboard Flydubai FZ1073 led to an emergency diversion and safe landing at Tabuk. Both pilots received treatment. Official headcounts conflict and…
Two motorcycles collided between Hirdamali and Miltoli. Early reports counted three deaths and one serious injury; later condition of the injured person and the…
A company accounts head reportedly sent ₹6.80 crore to three accounts after messages impersonating a director. Police announced a 12th arrest on 26 September.
A retired official was allegedly coerced through impersonation, forged material and AI-manipulated images into transferring about ₹2.36 crore. Alert bank staff interrupted further transfers…
Nine people died across three separate Gujarat water incidents: three after a fishing boat capsized in the Tapi River near Surat, four while bathing…
A sleeper bus carrying 35 people caught fire near Dayanatpur on the Yamuna Expressway. Nine people died and 26 escaped. Police investigated an unusable…
Bihar’s September floods remained an active emergency even as parts of the Ganga receded. This case examines the gap between improving gauge readings and…
This regional case study separates two dated phases: the 12 September evacuation-and-shelter snapshot and a later 28 September statewide heavy-rain/flood toll. The figures must…
Existing editorial cover A fire at a waste and recycling unit in Neasden, London, needed about 125 firefighters and sent a large smoke plume over homes and…
Existing editorial cover A comparative hospital-fire record examining reported neonatal deaths. Because the original post combines two incidents and casualty claims, each number must remain separated and…
Existing HowToSurvive.in image A garment-shop fire in Surat’s congested Chauta Bazaar showed how narrow lanes, encroachments, mixed occupancy and heavy combustible stock complicate urban firefighting.
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