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Ten killed in Jammu building fire, victims mostly construction workers

| | Jan 01, 2016, at 05:45 pm
#Jammu fire # fire deaths
Jammu, Jan 01 (IBNS) At least ten people died in an overnight fire that broke out in a residential building at Chanderkote in Ramban District of Jammu region, police said on Friday.

According to reports, the fire killed several construction camp workers who were engaged by a company constructing Chenani-Nashari tunnel on Jammu-Srinagar highway.
 
Beigh Construction Corporation is constructing an 11-km-long Channani-Nashri tunnel on 300 km long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.

“We have identified six labourers from different states of India besides Jammu and Kashmir," Senior Superintendent of Police Randip Kumar told IBNS, adding that they are trying to identify other bodies.
 
He  said we are collecting the details from the site to ascertain the cause of the fire.

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri) 
 

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