As per initial probe, the fire may have started due to a short circuit, leading to barrels filled with chemicals at the site exploding, which further intensified the blaze, an official said.
The fire engulfed chemicals and other inflammable materials on the premises, causing hurdles in the search and rescue operation, an official said.
A massive fire incident occurred at a company in the Mahad MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) in Raigad district.
A team of experienced mountaineers from the Maharashtra Mountaineers Rescue Coordination Centre has also been mobilised.
The IMD has issued a red alert for Raigad district in Maharashtra predicting excessive rainfall on Thursday.
Raigad accident: The private bus was going from Pune to Mumbai when it fell into the gorge near Shingroba temple on the old Mumbai-Pune highway, police said.
Raigad bus accident: "Students were returning from picnic when the bus overturned. A case is being registered," said Gauri More Patil, Senior Police Inspector of Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the boat was owned by an Australian woman. The boat drifted due to the inclement weather and came to the Raigad coast, he added.
A high alert has been issued in Maharashtra after a suspicious boat loaded with weapons was found off a beach in Harihareshwar, Raigad district.
Maharashtra rains: A civic official said that Palghar is expected to witness heavy rainfall from Monday till July 8 and citizens have been asked to take precautions, including not going out for fishing and visiting water bodies in the region.
The kin of the victims is given Rs 5 lakh, including Rs 4 lakh from the State Disaster Management Fund and Rs 1 lakh from the Chief Minister's Fund.
The district administration of Raigad in Maharashtra has received 26 container houses to provide temporary accommodation to the residents of Taliye village.
The death toll in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra rose to 164 on Monday after the recovery of 11 more bodies in Raigad and two each in Wardha and Akola.
Locals said all members of the family were caught in the landslide. Moti also hurt his leg but managed to stay safe.
Several parts of Maharashtra including Mumbai have been witnessing heavy rains for the last few days, trigger landslides. Raigad, Ratnagiri and Satara are the worst affected.
NDRF deployed 8 more teams in Maharashtra in the flood-affected areas. Now a total of 34 teams have been deployed for rescue and relief work at various places.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has enhanced the number of its teams from 26 to 34 for undertaking rescue operations. The teams are being deployed in affected areas of Mumbai, Ratnagiri, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Satara, Sangli, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Pune and Nagpur for rescue and relief work.
A total of 47 persons have died in the Raigad district in the Konkan region in rain-related incidents. The official toll at Taliye village is 37, while the remaining 10 deaths are from two separate incidents of landslide in the same district.
As many as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra over the last two days, while 84,452 people under the Pune division were shifted to safer places on Friday as heavy showers continued to wreak havoc in the state.
Heavy rains since the last two days have caused massive floods in Raigad, Ratnagiri, Palghar, Thane, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts. Both Centre and State have announced ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased while rescue efforts are continuing at several locations.
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