Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaSagar is the headquarters town of Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh, with National Highway 44 running through the district to the south-east. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the district, including Gopalpura near Deori, about 49 km from the town.
Checked 10 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: National emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. Works from any phone · 101: Listed as the fire service number on the Sagar district website. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed as the ambulance number on the Sagar district website. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed as the police number on the Sagar district website, also reachable through 112
Print the Sagar emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers, and the Sagar fire, disaster and civic numbers from this guide. There are blank lines for your family contacts and the nearest hospital.
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Checked 10 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the morning of 9 November 2026, a speeding truck collided head on with an Ertiga on National Highway 44 near Gopalpura village, in the Deori police station area. The family in the car was going from Bhainsa to the Narmada for a dip on Somvati Amavasya. Four people died and five were taken to Bundelkhand Medical College and Hospital in Sagar. The truck driver fled.
At about 8.30 to 9 am on 4 August 2024, the wall of a dilapidated house fell on a tent near a temple at Shahpur village, in Sagar district, where children were making clay Shivlings for a religious event. Nine children aged 10 to 15 died and two were hurt. The district collector attributed the fall to heavy rain.
After about 48 hours of heavy rain, the Bina river overflowed on 5 July 2025 and disrupted traffic on the Rahatgarh to Khurai road in Sagar district. The Bhopal to Sagar highway was badly affected after a stream rose near Begamganj in the neighbouring Raisen district, and heavy vehicles were stopped there.
At about 2 am on 28 March 2023, a fire broke out in a house above a cloth shop in Sarafa Bazar, Devri Nagar, in Sagar district, while an elderly couple slept inside. Both died, the house and the shop goods were destroyed, and the cause was not determined at the time.
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