Mumbai Restaurant Fire Kills at Least 14<br />29, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — A fire tore through an upscale commercial building on Friday in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, killing<br />at least 14 people, including women attending a birthday party at a rooftop restaurant, a hospital official said.<br />The police said the fire started on an upper floor before quickly engulfing the building’s rooftop restaurants, 1 Above<br />and Mojo’s Bistro, where more than 100 people had gathered, including a large group of women in their 20s and 30s attending a birthday party.<br />Devendra Fadnavis, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, where Mumbai is located, said he had ordered a full investigation into the cause of the fire, writing on Twitter<br />that "strong action" would be taken against "erring officials." India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, said that he was "anguished" by the fire.<br />People were running all over me." By the time firefighters gained control of the blaze in the early morning hours on Friday, three men<br />and eleven women had died from suffocation, a hospital official said, includinga 28-year-old woman celebrating her birthday.<br />In July, the police in Mumbai arrested a man affiliated with a local political party for making illegal alterations to a five-story building<br />that caused it to collapse and kill at least 17 people.<br />Safety regulations are rarely enforced in Mumbai, home to more than 18 million people,<br />especially in older buildings, where fires and building collapses are common.<br />The injured were brought to King Edward Memorial Hospital and Sion Hospital in Mumbai.
