Fire breaks out at apartment in Ahmedabad, 17-year-old dies

“It is a three-bedroom flat and the girl, Pranjal Jeerawala, was in one of the rooms. The room had plenty of wooden furniture and the door, which was locked, also caught fire, thus trapping her inside the room,” Khadia said,

He added, “One of our teams entered the flat from the balcony by lowering one of our firemen from the eighth floor to the seventh floor. The balcony was protected with an iron grille so we had to break that down first. At the same time, the other firemen were trying to douse the fire on the room’s door following which we entered the room. When we rescued her, she had already suffered burns, and was rushed immediately to a nearby hospital, where she was later declared dead.”

Khadia further said, “There were a total of three persons in the house at the time of the incident — the girl, her aunt and her cousin brother. The aunt and her cousin brother escaped and went down after attempting to break open the door of the girl’s room but could not.”