Shoe Factory Blaze Claims at Least 40 Lives
From Times Wire Reports
A fire engulfed a shoe factory in northern India, killing at least 40 people and injuring several others, news reports said.
Many more people were feared trapped inside the factory in Agra, 110 miles southeast of New Delhi, United News of India quoted Mahesh Kumar Gupta, a government administrator, as saying.
The news agency said an electrical short circuit caused the fire. Military fire engines joined efforts to extinguish the blaze and rescue those inside the building.
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